It's Monday, already?

That means yesterday was Sunday? and tomorrow - Tuesday?
How can that be? Wasn't it just Shabbos? Unbelievable, the way time flies, I guess we must be having fun!!!!

...so let the fun continue--
Monday Night:  7-9 PM Brainwaves with Brian Blum, and then
9-11PM Monday Night Music with Maya
Beyond that? Steve may pop on for a while, Grateful Dead concert? Great music to keep you company...hey I bet we are having fun, yet!!!!
...and then, before you know it - TUESDAY!
Lorelai in the AM
Israeli Soul in the afternoon
7:00 Homegrown
8:00 Newgrass/Bluegrass
9:30 That's Rock and Roll

sounds like we've got it covered.

C Ya on the Radio!

CHODESH TOV - It's Finally the Month of Shvat!

Wow, Tevet seemed like it lasted a million years - but now it's time to move on, onwards and upwards into the light, people! Chodesh Tov everyone, it's the Month of Shvat - and today is Rosh Chodesh Shvat. Back in the days of the Talmud, Rabbi Shamai and Rabbi Hillel (who were always at odds) disagreed as to which day was the "New Years for the Trees." Shamai (by whom we will hold during the days of the Messiah) held that Rosh Chodesh Shvat was the New Years for the Trees and Hillel (by whom we hold until Messiah comes) said Tu b'Shvat (the 15th of Shvat). So either way it's a good deal and Shvat holds more simcha to come - and a great day of Rosh Chodesh programming on Radio Free Nachlaot!

This morning we've got Musical Cholent Mix until 10am, when we're repeating last night's edition of Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer's "Developing Your Neshama Through the Jewish Year - The Rosh Chodesh Shvat Edition." It'll blow your mind - guaranteed!

From 11am - 1pm it's Blues and Jazz! Ella Fitzgerald "These are the Blues" on the Bluesy Blues Show, and on the Jazzy Jazz Show it's David "Fathead" Newman and Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond. 

Israeli Soul Afternoon (1pm - 6pm) features music from Moshe Avernic, SoulAviv, Even Sh'siyah, HaDag Nahash, Edem MQuedem, Reb Shlomo, and Eitan Katz.

Music from Moroccan Spirit ("1001 Nights") helps us transition into evening - then at 7pm it's Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven's "TEMPLE TALK" - "Black Soot & Boils!" Yep, it's time to discuss the 10 Plagues of Egypt - sure to be a rousing conversation!

At 8pm it's the "Not For Drag Queens Only" Show Tunes Show featuring RENT - the Original Broadway Cast Recording (we're hoping to have enough money for rent ourselves this month, with G*d's help - hey, don't forget - Radio Free Nachlaot is Member-Supported Internet Radio - you could help us with this, you know? Throw some change into the virtual guitar case using the PayPal icon on our web site! Thanks so much, friends!) :)

After RENT (a little after 10pm) we'll play the Grateful Dead's classic "CRIMSON WHITE AND INDIGO" concert (because you deserve it, and so do we!) 

Tomorrow Lorelai "promises" she'll be back with a new edition of "What's New With Lorelai" which usually runs Monday - Thursdays from 10am - 11am but this week is a bit sticky - but she'll be back with her new newsy news show tomorrow, with G*d's help!

CHODESH TOV, EVERYBODY! It's time to let your sap rise - Shvat signals the end of Winter and the promise of the coming Spring - even though it's COLD outside - we're starting moving towards the warmth - can you imagine it yet even if you can't feel it? We can!

New Monday Evening Schedule!

Monday has become crowded, in a good way!
For the next couple of months, MAYA will be Monday nights 9pm - 11pm and Brian Blum's BRAINWAVES will also be on Mondays, from 7pm - 9pm ...
(That means Showtunes on Wednesday nights?) Oy. We need to add an extra day to the schedule - NOT!
Tonight - 7pm, Brian Blum brings us BRAINWAVES, the best Indies ever to rock Internet radio!
Tonight - 9pm, MAYA is back with "Music of the Night"
It's all good, right?
It's all about being flexible ... thank G*d, we have what to be flexible about!
"C YA on the Radio!"

You've Gotta Have HEARTT

The Beatles say: All you need is love. The Broadway Musical "Damn Yankees" reminds us: You've gotta have heart.

Radio Free Nachlaot says: screw SOPA and PIPA - all we really need  is HEARTT - "HELPING ENSURE ARTISTS RIGHTS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY."

Hear all about it on Lorelai's "What's New With Lorelai" Newsy News Show from today ( CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN TO THE SHOW). The big news on the Internet is that the U.S. Congress is considering "anti-piracy" legislation (called SOPA for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and  PIPA, unintelligibly named for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 ) which would in effect put the burden of anti-piracy, royalty regulation and intellectual copyright protection on web site owners instead of where it belongs - which, according to Lorelai, is upon the ISP providers.

As of December 20th, 2011, there were a total of 6,930,055,154 Internet users in the whole world. You can't use the Internet without an ISP provider. The U.S. Congress needs to scrap their SOPA and PIPA legislation and adopt MY plan (which Lorelai first proposed at a NARAS conference in 2004) called HEARTT - "Helping Ensure Artist's Rights Through Technology." ISP providers would charge each Internet user .01 per month, creating a cash pool out of which all royalties would be paid. Do the math, people. ISP providers NOT web site owners should be responsible for royalty payments.

At the time Lorelai proposed this idea to NARAS (the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) a.k.a. the "Grammy" people - they thought it was a great idea but also thought that unless the Government pressured ISP providers to do this it wouldn't be done and that "no one wanted to pay more for their internet." She pointed out that no one would have to pay more for their internet - only the ISP providers would have to take a TINY bit LESS profit from each internet user to contribute to the cash pool. Being Capitalists they thought it would amount to "higher taxes," She said "How can charging AT THE MOST .10 more a month (since by my calculations they only needed .01 cents but knowing Capitalism they'd need to charge .10 to be able to reap .01) be considered 'higher taxes'?" and then at that point the conversation turned to which cocktail should be ordered next.

As Lorelai said in her Facebook rant on the subject: Make mine a COSMOPOLITAN please - l'chaim, Neil Portnow, you could have been a contender.

But it's not too late. Strike while the iron is hot - maybe HEARTT was just an idea ahead of its time. It's 2012 people - wake up! Stop SOPA and PIPA - and demand HEARTT!


Today on the Final Vinyl Show - a "Simon Sandwich!" It's Paul Simon's "There Goes Rhymin' Simon," followed by Bonnie Raitt's "Give It Up" and Carly Simon's "No Secrets." (Or does that make it a Raitt sandwich? One man's ceiling is another man's floor - whatever!


On Israeli Soul Afternoon we'll hear "Ha Orot" - Rav Kook Jazz Poetry by Greg Wall and the Modern Prophets with Reb Itzchak Marmostein (Itzchak Evan Shays), John Zorn "The Jewish Jazz Genius," Reb Shlomo, soothing spiritual piano music from Shoshanna Shoshanna, 1001 Nights by Moroccan Spirit and then some great world music by Sanjay Mishtra and Jerry Garcia.


At 7pm tonight Rabbi Chaim Richman brings us the Parsha Shavua - "Vaera" - and at 8pm we'll hear Rav Ozer Bergman's Rebbe Nachman Thursday Night Rebbe Nachman Chebura, and then just for fun we'll hear the ENTIRE recording of the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert from Madison Square Garden in 1992 featuring John Cougar Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Eddie Vedder, Tracie Chapman, Willie Nelson, Johnny Winter, Ronnie Wood, Ritchie Havens, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Roseanne Cash, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, The Band, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Chrissie Hynde and many, many more - in other words: EVERYBODY. 


Followed by - you guessed it! Steve Levine's "COOKIN' FOR SHABBOS!"
Gevaldt, it's Thursday - that can only mean Shabbos is coming! Shabbos is coming, thank G*d!!!

Maya's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Tonight, 9pm Israel Time!

"OK Rockstars..." that's right, coming down upon us at long last - our beloved DJ MAYA is back tonight (after a bit of an absence due to IMMENSE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WAY BEYOND OUR CONTROL) and she's ready to rock the Casbah! Maya's got great songs for the night - the music just keeps getting better and better - and believe us, when she finally gets in front of the microphone again you're going to hear one happy girl DJ! 9pm - 11pm Jerusalem time - "Wake up everybody, Maya's in The House!"

The Day The Music Died???

Did you hear Lorelai playing "American Pie" earlier this evening? The reference point was - "The Day The Music Died" - and we're talking about Steve Levine's computer! Folks, Radio Free Nachlaot's "Abba," Steve Levine, has NO COMPUTER due to the horrible and painful computer death last week - that means no programming from Undisclosed Studio B (including Brian, Maya, Homegrown, Cookin' for Shabbos, etc.) until we get some help! WE NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS to buy a new broadcast laptop for Steve! Look for the PayPal icon on our web page www.radiofreenachlaot.com and please give generously! We're looking to raise about $800 and/or 3000NIS - that's what it's going to take - won't you help RFN in our time of need???

Why Is This Coming Shmita Different From All Other Shmitas?

Shmita - the laws of how the Land of Israel is to be allowed to rest from it's cycle of productivity - is the subject of tonight's "Sunday Night Live" Show. Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein of the Diaspora Yeshiva / Mt. Zion gives a fascinating interview on the subject of "Why is this Shmita different from all other Shmitas?" 8pm Jerusalem time tonight. Hint - by the time the next Shmita cycle (which begins three Rosh HaShanahs from now) comes, the majority of Jews in the world will (probably, according to demographers, b'ezrat HaShem), be living in Eretz Yisrael. That's the game-changer with eternal consequences - and something we must make a national decision about NOW, before the 6th year of the Shmita cycle, so we can guarantee a bumper crop and have the resources to carry us through the Torah-mandated Shmita year (the 7th year of the cycle). Complicated? Maybe. Important? Well, consider this - it was because the Jewish People DIDN'T keep Shmita properly that they had to spend 70 years in Babylon. So it's not just a tangential subject - it has immense national and spiritual implications for the Jewish People, and the world at large. Listen to Rabbi Yitzchak Goldstein at 8pm tonight on Radio Free Nachlaot and find out more!