We'll Be Off The Air for The 9 Days - But Back Before The 9 Days of Jerry!

As per our minhag in recent years, we'll be off the air for the 9 Days between Rosh Chodesh Av (Friday, July 13th) and Tisha b'Av, returning to our 24/6 broadcast schedule after the Fast.

This year the Fast of Tisha b'Av is delayed because of Shabbat, so it is observed on Sunday, July 22nd. The fast ends at 8:12pm Jerusalem time. Because it's actually the 10th of Av, we'll be starting the radio back up sometime later that evening - stay tuned & Steve will let us know exactly when.

Don't forget - Radio Free Nachlaot's 9th Annual 9 DAYS OF JERRY begins Wednesday, August 1st! We'll run until Shabbos begins, Jerusalem time, on Friday August 3rd, and we'll be off for "Shabbos Jerry" until Saturday evening, August 4th. We'll go strong all week long bringing you the best of the legacy of Jerry Garcia until Friday, August 10th ("Isru Jerry").

As we've done the last few years, RFN's 9 Days of Jerry launches our annual donation drive! You can start NOW by supporting our "GO FUND ME" CAMPAIGN (see the top of this page or CLICK HERE). We'll be asking for your support right up until Rosh HaShanah or we meet our (extremely modest) goal of $2000 for this year!

The 9th Annual "9 Days of Jerry" Are Coming - Gevaldt!!!

Radio Free Nachlaot  has been broadcasting the best music, talk and Torah live from Jerusalem "24/6" since November, 2009. RFN's "Where Shlomo Meets Jerry" format keeps our world-wide listening audience connected with Israel through music and culture.

Our non-commercial format has been self-funded with the help of listener donations over the years. We rely on the kindness and generosity of our friends and fans to support our annual fundraiser and keep us on the air another year!

The funds raised from this "Go Fund Me" campaign will be used to pay our broadcasting overhead for the next year. We need your support to stay on the air!

We'll be running the campaign all during our 9th Annual "9 Days of Jerry" (August 1st - August 9th, plus "Isru Jerry" August 10th, 2018) through Rosh HaShanah, or until our goal is met. Thanks in advance for your generous support!

RFN's FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN ROLLS ON UNTIL ROSH HASHANAH!

Dateline: Jerusalem

In an unprecedented outpouring of generosity, listeners world-wide have contributed amounts large and small to Radio Free Nachlaot's FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN, which began with the 9 Days of Jerry in August. As of this moment, we've raised $1401 of our $10K goal! 

We're asking our friends, families, fans, listeners, guests and random lovers of music, Israel and the Grateful Dead to please give us the GIFT OF LIFE!

$18 (18 in Hebrew is "Chai", "Life") is do-able by just about anyone. Of course we'll gladly and gratefully accept donations of any amount!

Please visit our GoFundMe Campaign Page and help us stay on the air!

 

New APP for IOS & Android!

Breaking: The Radio Free Nachlaot App for IOS & Android is LIVE! Download your free app from the IOS app store for iPhone & iPad, and from Google Play for your Android & tablet today!

IT'S COOLER WITH THE APP! It really, really is. Try it!

Search for "RADIO FREE NACHLAOT" in the IOS App Store or on Google Play and download your free app today!
or

CLICK HERE for our IOS App in the App Store, for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch

CLICK HERE for our ANDROID App in Google Play. for Android & Tablets

PHISH PHOR PHANS Debuts Sunday, May 8th!

We're so excited to announce our new weekly radio show - PHISH PHOR PHANS, hosted by uber-Phish-head David Jaffe! 

Debuting Sunday, May 8th, the show will play at 9pm Israel time (11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern), bringing you two hours of the best of the best of Phish, each and every Sunday - only on Radio Free Nachlaot!
Join the "Phish Phor Phans" Facebook Page by clicking HERE and join us on the radio every Sunday at 9pm Israel time, 11am Pacific and 2pm Eastern to hear "Phish Phor Phans"!

Matisyahu Day on RFN

Matisyahu with Steve Levine, Jerusalem 2011

Here is a picture of Matisyahu visiting Radio Free Nachlaot's studios at the Jerusalem Media Group's in 2011, where he was interviewed by Steve Levine, and recorded "Some Day" with our friend Hermie Wolf.

We're honoring Matis today on RFN for the high road he took when BDS bullied Rototom Sunsplash into demanding he alone of the dozens of artists make a political statement in order to play. He declined. They cut him from the bill. Antisemitism in the very last place it should be - the musical community. We are officially disgusted.

We find it offensive that not a single one of the dozens of other artists were asked to make a political statement in order to perform at the Rototom Sunsplash Festival in Spain. Only the Jew. We find it offensive that the organizers of Rototom caved to BDS activist demands to single out the only Jewish performer to be examined for his politics. We find it offensive that other artists were not informed of the actions of the Rototom Sunsplash organizers and didn't have the opportunity to protest or to stand with Matisyahu; many of them didn't even hear what was happening until it showed up on social media.

This was Matisyahu's statement today:

"The festival organizers contacted me because they were getting pressure from the BDS movement. They wanted me to write a letter, or make a video, stating my positions on Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pacify the BDS people. I support peace and compassion for all people. My music speaks for itself, and I do not insert politics into my music. Music has the power to transcend the intellect, ideas, and politics, and it can unite people in the process. The festival kept insisting that I clarify my personal views; which felt like clear pressure to agree with the BDS political agenda. Honestly it was appalling and offensive, that as the one publicly Jewish-American artist scheduled for the festival they were trying to coerce me into political statements. Were any of the other artists scheduled to perform asked to make political statements in order to perform? No artist deserves to be put in such a situation simply to perform his or her art. Regardless of race, creed, country, cultural background, etc, my goal is to play music for all people. As musicians that is what we seek. - Blessed Love, Matis"

 Our revenge? MUSIC, and lots of it.

We'll be playing a lot of Matisyahu and a whole lot more of the best Jewish, Israeli, and World Music as well as the best classic rock, and of course, Reb Shlomo, and the Grateful Dead - all right here on Radio Free Nachlaot - broadcasting live 24/6 from Undisclosed Studio B Jerusalem (with a satellite studio "A" in Berkeley, California).

 

The #9DaysofJerry Are Upon Us!

We've chosen the "linear chronological" theme for this year's #9DaysofJerry event!


This is what we've heard and are hearing over Monday and Tuesday:

• Jerry and Sarah 2/2/63, Palo Alto
• Black Mountain Boys 1964
• Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Band at the Tangent, 7/8/64 
• Grateful Dead on KPIX, 4/8/67 including an interview by Ralph Gleason
• Grateful Dead at Dance Hall, Rio Nido, 9/4/67
• Grateful Dead at the Shrine Auditorium, 11/10/ and 11/11/67
• Grateful Dead, Felt Forum MSG, 12/5/71
• Grateful Dead at Roosevelt Stadium, NJ 7/18/72
• Grateful Dead at the Philadelphia Spectrum, 9/21/72
• New Riders of the Purple Sage, Felt Forum 3/18/73
• Grateful Dead at the Nassau Coliseum, 3/19/73
• Jerry Garcia & Merle Saunders, live at the Keystone, 7/10/73
• Grateful Dead at Providence Civic Center 6/26/74
• Grateful Dead at Boston Gardens, 6/28/74

We hope you're having a real good time listening to the 6th Annual #9DaysofJerry on Radio Free Nachlaot! 

We're Jelling!!! We're Jelling!!!

Radio Free Nachlaot's newest Torah series is jelling it's format. Here's the lineup:

"Na Nah Nachin' on Heaven's Door: Torah from Nachlaot"
Monday - Thursday, 5pm Israel time

Machane Yehuda Mondays - Torah from Nachlaot's Yeshivat Sulam Yaakov and Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo

Tanya Tuesdays - Tanya with Yiscah Sara Smith

Wild Card Wednesdays - See who drops by to enlighten us!

Temple Thursdays - "Temple Talk" with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven

Write us at: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com to suggest Torah teachers we might be interested in featuring on our "Wild Card Wednesday" (yesterday we had Tovia Singer and Rabbi Avraham Sutton, that was pretty wild!)

... and of course really, it goes without saying but I'll say it anyway: listen to us 24/6 at www.radiofreenachlaot.com - because Nachlaot is not JUST a neighborhood: It's a State of Mind.

Tovia Singer Interviews Rav Avraham Sutton! 5pm Israel time "Wildcard Wednesday" - "Na Nah Nachin' on Heaven's Door" - Torah from Nachlaot!

Well, I know you're asking yourself - how does either Tovia Singer or Avraham Sutton come under the category of "Torah from Nachlaot"?

Both qualify for that category, and that's why we're airing Rabbi Tovia Singer's recent interview with Rav Avraham Sutton on the "Wildcard Wednesday" episode of our new "Na Nah Nachin' on Heaven's Door: Torah from Nachlaot" show!

5pm Israel time you'll hear Avraham Sutton take Tovia Singer into INNER SPACE - and they're going to take you there too!

So, what's the connection?

Rav Avraham Sutton frequently teaches at Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo in Nachlaot, run by Rav Sholom Brodt and Rebetzin Judy Brodt.

Both Rav Sutton and Tovia Singer have been related to Radio Free Nachlaot since our earliest days - Lorelai made the original "shidduch" between Tovia and Rav Sutton when RFN first began broadcasting,
... and of course whenever Tovia is shopping for Shabbos, there's nowhere he likes to be more than Machanae Yehuda Shuk, buying freshly baked challot and the freshest salmon for his famous Shabbos Sushi.

So there you go. Another great Torah show at 5pm Israel time. Because you know we're all about the best music, talk & Torah 24/6 from Israel to the World - and even though we're triangulating a lot lately (first Tzfat, then Berkeley) our HOME, our ANCHOR LOCATION, is always and forever in Jerusalem, and thank G*d, Baruch HaShem, Steve Levine & Family are anchored to Yerushalyim and Undisclosed Studio B will always "B" THERE - no matter where Undisclosed Studio A roams!

Celebrate BLUES FOR CHALLAH With Free Downloads from RFN and JetBlue!

25 Days until BLUES FOR CHALLAH!!!
 
L'kavod Radio Free Nachlaot's coverage of the BLUES FOR CHALLAH Grateful Deadfest Shabbaton at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, we're giving away FREE DOWNLOADS of "The Best of Radio Free Nachlaot Live, Vol. 1" every day between now and December 11th! 
 
It's not too late to register for the event - visit this link: http://isabellafreedman.org/gratefuldead
 
The RFN broadcast of "One More Saturday Night," 7pm Eastern Time on December 14th, is brought to you by JetBlue Airways , our awesome and hip Travel Sponsor - give them some love, they deserve it! If you've got to travel by air to get to the event, go JetBlue! 

To claim your free download, send an email to: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com and tell us what gives you the Blues, and what you do when you've got 'em!

You Say It's Our Birthday - Happy Birthday To Us!

GEVALDT, It's RFN's 4th Birthday!

Rosh Chodesh Kislev marks our 4th year of broadcasting the best music, talk & Torah 24/6 to our world-wide listening audience!

 Starting Year 5 off right ....

 Steve Levine is live on the air in Jerusalem celebrating Radio Free Nachlaot's Rosh Chodesh Kislev 4th Birthday - Lorelai be taking the radio 8am Monday, Jerusalem time / 10pm Sunday California time, to continue the party, and will be Skyping in Steve so "Papa Radio" and "Mama Radio" can simulcast a little bit and be together for the bday celebration. 

 Listen at www.radiofreenachlaot.com as we play "The Best of RFN Years 1-4" - and this is Week 3 of the 9 Weeks of Shlomo, and  Steve is planning on playing Reb Shlomo recorded live at a Sufi retreat! That should be fun! 

Yom Huledet Sameach, Radio Free Nachlaot!

JOIN US AT THE MOSHAV COUNTRY FAIR ON MONDAY!

 

It's Chol haMoed, our favorite vacation time of year (and aren't we lucky, we get it TWICE a year)! And as has become our minhag, Radio Free Nachlaot will be broadcasting LIVE from the famous Moshav Mevo Modiin in Israel during the 12th Annual Moshav Country Fair, Chol haMoed Sukkot 5774!

We'll be live from 11am - 11pm (or thereabouts) Israel time on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd  

Join us and thousands of our world-wide listening audience as we enjoy a day at the Fair, with music from a real all-star lineup!


11 am     Josh Lauffer
12 pm    Benyamin Steinberg
1 pm      Gavriel Naftaly
2 pm      Yerachmiel and Arba Minim
3 pm      Shlomo Katz
4 pm     Yehuda Katz
5 pm     BenZion Solomon & Sons
6 pm    Hamakor
7 pm    Shivat Zion
8 pm    Shivi Keller
9 pm    Aryeh Naftaly & Elevators 

Our broadcast this year is sponsored by Dr. Tova Goldfine, known far and wide as our beloved "Dr. Tova," whose work as a Chiropractor has brought relief and healing for uncountable patients during her 30 years of practice, and an Anonymous sponsor on behalf of the Hochbaum Family and the Holy City of Hevron. We're grateful for the support of our sponsors - and you should be too, because without them we wouldn't be able to do this broadcast for y'all! 

Tune in to Radio Free Nachlaot to hear our live broadcast from Moshav Mevo Modiin starting around 11am Israel time on Monday, September 22nd - and join us in celebrating Moadim l'Simcha during Chol haMoed Sukkot!

Yom Kippur on Shabbos - The Shabbat Shabbaton!

A wonderful calendar confluence- Yom Kippur falls out on Shabbat this year, making it a "Shabbat Shabbaton,"  the Shabbat of all Shabboses, the highest and holiest day of the year.

We'll be eating manna, the food of angels - we'll be wearing white, we'll be so close to the World to Come that we'll be tasting it and breathing it - and we invite you to meet us there, between the Cherubim, where heaven and earth kiss and make up, where all our hurts are healed and we are assured of our acceptance, forgiveness and restoration with both G*d and our fellow humans.

We're broadcasting special Yom Kippur-themed shiurim and music today as we lead up to about 6pm Israel time, when we'll be off the air until Moetzi Shabbos - Saturday Night - when we'll switch it up to bring in the joyous time immediately following Yom Kippur - join us, won't you?

Have an easy, meaningful and redemptive fast - "Tzom Kal" - and G'mar Chatimah Tovah, you should be written in the Book of Life - signed, sealed and delivered for a health, happy, peaceful and productive New Year!

OUR FIRST GIFT TO YOU FOR 5774 - MICKEY HART, CRYSTAL MONEE HALL AND JONATHON LIPSIN

SHANA TOVA U'METUKA - HAPPY 5774, EVERYBODY!

 "Today is the birthday of the World..."

At RFN, we're like Hobbits with the minhag of birthdays - we think they call for presents to be distributed!

L'kavod the New Year, "The birthday of the world," we'd like to present  Radio Free Nachlaot's first gift to you for the Year 5774 - a link to the folder containing RFN's entire "Sunday Night Live" Show from August 25th, featuring Steve and Lorelai's review of the Mickey Hart Band's performance in Jerusalem on Aug 22nd, as well as our exclusive interviews with Mickey Hart, Crystal Monee Hall and Incredible Records Founder Jonathon Lipsin 

The show has been broken up into small bite size pieces for your listening convenience and pleasure - a total of 8 separate MP3 recordings in this file folder, in order of how they aired on the show - enjoy them! With love from us at RFN to y'all. https://app.box.com/s/on3spqiv177y5hmkih0v

Shana Tova u'Metuka - Rosh HaShanna 5774 - AND We're Off The Air for 3 Days!!!

Rosh HaShannah, the "head" ("rosh") of the year, ushers in the Jewish New Year of 5774, beginning at Sundown on Wednesday - and is a 2-day holiday (actually it's "one long day" that lasts a full 48 hours, but that's another theological story)!

 Immediately after Rosh HaShanna, Shabbat begins - which means that Radio Free Nachlaot's overheated and overworked broadcasting units will get three whole days of uninterrupted rest! That's great news for our processors, B"H.

We want to wish all our RFN friends, fans and family a Shana Tova u'Metuka, a sweet and happy New Year, may we all be written in the Book of Life for health, abundance, love, and everything we need both as individuals and as the human race.

As the news of escalating tensions in the Middle East buzz about us via every possible medium, we know we are safe in the hands of HKBH, Who in just another day or so during Rosh HaShannah services we'll be communally proclaiming "HaMELECH...." The King!

Nobody messes with the children of The King, y'all. 

With hope and faith that The King will set all things in order, with sincere prayers for the health and safety of ourselves and our regional neighbors as well as the entire world, with confidence that The King always judges righteously and with mercy, and with humble gratitude for our lives which remain, as always, in His hands -

With love to everyone, everywhere
From the Holy City of Jerusalem

Steve Levine and Lorelai Kude
Radio Free Nachlaot

www.radiofreenachlaot.com

Nachlaot: NOT Just a Neighborhood: A State of Mind!

Broadcasting the best music, talk & Torah 24/6 from various undisclosed locations in the Holy Land to our International listening audience in 97 countries world-wide!

Listen here on our web page, or on iTunes Radio under the "International/World" category, or on TuneIn Radio (free app for iPhone and Android) or on any one of dozens of Internet radio aggregation services available everywhere on the web.

Contact us at: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com

WOW, WE SCORED!!! Our Interviews with MICKEY HART, CRYSTAL MONEE HALL and Incredible Records Founder JONATHON LIPSIN Sunday Sept. 1st at 7pm Israel time!

Friends - We're still HIGH from the MICKEY HART BAND concert in Jerusalem which took place at the magical, magnificent amphitheater venue on Jerusalem's Mt. Scopus, overlooking the Judean desert all the way to the Dead Sea.
Undoubtedly it was the concert of a lifetime for Israel-based Deadheads, who welcomed Mickey Hart, the first member of the Grateful Dead ever to play in Israel (and, by the way, also the first and so far only Dead member to play in both Egypt AND Israel!).

The revelation of the evening was Tony Award-winning vocalist CRYSTAL MONEE HALL, who embodied Shechina with her amazing voice, bringing it down and giving it over like it's never been done before!

We'll be airing our exclusive interviews with both Mickey Hart and Crystal Monee Hall on Radio Free Nachlaot's "Sunday Night Live" show Sunday, September 1st at 7pm Israel time.

This is "appointment listening," people! Tune in to hear Steve and Lorelai live from Undisclosed Studio B in Jerusalem, discussing the concert in-depth and playing both interviews, both of which will later be available for download from our web site.

"Sunday Night Live" on Radio Free Nachlaot will also feature Lorelai's interview with Jonathon Lipsin, founder of the legendary Incredible Records, who flew into Israel from Switzerland for the Mickey Hart concert and has been hanging out in the Holy Land for a couple of weeks.

Jonathon Lipson has more music industry stories to tell than there are ears to hear them in the entire human race. This man is like the Forest Gump of the music industry - the likes of Paul Robeson and Pete Seger were regulars at his parents dinner table in Toronto where he grew up "a red diaper baby," secular Zionist turned Israeli soldier, entrepreneur and founder of what Leonard Cohen called "The Greatest Record Store in the World."

 Read more about Jonathan Lipson in this article about the closing of his store after 30 years, and listen to our interview with him on "Sunday Night Live," Sunday September 1st, 7pm Israel time (9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central, 12Noon Eastern) on www.radiofreenachlaot.com

The 4th Annual 9 DAYS OF JERRY on Radio Free Nachlaot!

Thank G*d the "between the straits" time is over, and we're on our way to the good times - the best of times, the time of year we look forward to with gleeful anticipation - it's Radio Free Nachlaot's 4th Annual 9 Days of Jerry! 

Celebrating the 9 Days between Jerry's birthday and his yartzeit, RFN's 9 Days of Jerry August 1st - 9th, 2013 will be broadcasting our All Jerry and Jerry-Related Programming 24/6 (except Shabbos Jerry, of course).

As in years past, we'll be offering GUEST DJ opportunities as well as the option to sponsor your favorite show by making a DEADICATION - all you have to do is write to us at: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com and tell us what show you'd like to DEADICATE to whom, and we'll hook you up!

We know because of the previous three years that The 9 Days of Jerry is the annual highlight of our programming (after all, our format is "Where Shlomo Meets Jerry"), and we want to hear from you!

This year for the first time ever, Lorelai is in California and Steve is in Jerusalem - so Guest DJ spots are available in both the Bay Area AND the Holy Land! Email us at: radiofreenachlaot@gmail.com for Guest DJ openings during the 4th Annual 9 Days of Jerry!

THE 72 SONGS OF BOB DYLAN - 6PM ISRAEL TIME TONIGHT ON RADIO FREE NACHLAOT!

It's Bob Dylan's Hebrew Birthday - Celebrate with Radio Free Nachlaot and listen to "THE 72 SONGS OF BOB DYLAN," beginning at 6pm Israel time tonight (Tuesday May 7th), with a special intro by the Middle East's #1 Dylan expert Chaim Richman (he's our go-to guy when we need someone to poskin on a Dylan situation at the radio station!) 

We're going to play 72 of the greatest Bob Dylan songs in a row - listen at www.radiofreenachlaot.com or listen to Radio Free Nachlaot on TuneIn radio free app for iPhone or Android or find us on iTunes Radio under the "International/World" category.

And yes, it's likely we'll repeat the show on his solar calendar birthday (May 24th), but it's really more matim to listen to it for the first time today, Bob Dylan's 72nd Hebrew Birthday (28 Iyar). 

WOW, did you ever notice that BOB DYLAN'S BIRTHDAY is the SAME day on the Hebrew Calendar as YOM YERUSHALYIM - Iyar 28th - in fact, Bob was born 26 years before Jerusaem was reunified - 26 is a mystical number that represents a Name of G*d - well, it's all just too cosmic for us, but we'll fill you in live on the air tonight - listen at 6pm Israel time/8am Pacific/9am Central/10am Mountain/11am Eastern) because after the 72 Names of Bob Dylan Show we'll go straight into our Yom Yerushalyim programming!

MULTIPLE CELEBRATIONS ON THE RADIO!