Is it KOSHER to Play the "Race Card"? We Think it's TRAIFE.

Chloe Valdary

Is it KOSHER to call an intelligent, articulate, passionately pro-Israel African American woman a "Negro Uncle Tom" on social media? We think NOT!!! In fact, we think it's TRAIFE!!! 

Thursday - Listen to Lorelai's interview with 20 year old New Orleans student and social media sensation Chloé Simone Valdary whose pro-Israel video has gone madly viral, making her a target of racism on Twitter.

"Heart to Heart with Lorelai" airs Thursday on Radio Free Nachlaot at 6:30pm Israel time/8:30am Pacific/10:30am Central/11:30am Eastern RIGHT HERE at www.radiofreenachlaot.com ( H2H is a Mitzvah Media production, produced by Wendy Kenin).

To download the interview with Chloe, CLICK HERE.

Also on RFN's Thursday programming schedule - "Israeli Soul Afternoon" music from Raz Hartman (don't forget to catch him in Oakland, California on March 3rd!), the Bat Ayin Band, and music from previous JEWLICIOUS FESTIVALS (Jewlicious X is this weekend in Long Beach), plus "Temple Talk" with Rabbi Chaim Richman and Yitzchak Reuven of the Temple Institute (5pm Israel time).

 

It was 50 Years Ago Today - Again???!!!

Yes, for the 3rd week running, it was 50 years ago today that the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 3rd week in a row.  America was crazed over the Beatles, and Ed Sullivan, the master promoter and "barker" that he was knew a good thing when he saw it. His ratings were through the roof, and although we had to sit through a whole bunch of other stuff, we got to see the Beatles on Sunday Night T.V.
Now, for the record, the performance was actually recorded on the afternoon of February 9th.

As Wikipedia reports:

"That afternoon The Beatles recorded Twist And Shout, Please Please Me and I Want To Hold Your Hand, in front of a different audience to the one that saw their live debut that evening. This set was broadcast on 23 February as the group's third Ed Sullivan appearance, after they had left the US. Before the recording, Sullivan introduced the group thus:

All of us on the show are so darned sorry, and sincerely sorry, that this is the third and thus our last current show with The Beatles, because these youngsters from Liverpool, England, and their conduct over here, not only as fine professional singers but as a group of fine youngsters, will leave an imprint of everyone over here who's met them.

Ed Sullivan

So tonight, Sunday Night Live - radio - will feature (once again) the Beatles!  We'll do a quick review and play appearances numbers one and two, and then, sometime around 8:30 PM Jerusalem Time, we will have appearance number 3 just as it sounded 50 years ago today.

Yes, it was 50 years ago today, and Ed Sullivan introduced the band to play.....

So stay tuned, we might have some other sixties goodies for you, as well.

C Ya on the Radio!

(and for those who are wondering -- the Rory Michelle Homegrown appearance will be re-broadcast NEXT Sunday night - without any interference from the Beatles!

Tonight - From Long Island to Jerusalem -

Homegrown Hour - Live from Studio "B" Presents:  RORY MICHELLE

Rory is a singer/songwriter who is living here in Jerusalem.  Let's get to know Rory's music and maybe a bit about her life, as well.  

Tonight 7:00 PM - Homegrown Hour featuring - Rory Michelle.

Join us, won't you?!!

It's Monday Night at the Movies, with Maya!

That's Right.  Let's all go to the Movies with Maya!

Great Movies need Great Soundtracks and Maya has put together the best of the best!

We'll hear music from some of the new "blockbusters", the classics, thrillers, comedies, drama, romance....all you need to do is supply the visuals, the memories and the POPCORN!!!

Sit back in your favorite chair/couch or pillow on the floor and let's all go to the Movies.

Tonight - Monday, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Jerusalem Time.

C U at the Movies!!!!

Sunday Night Live - It's going to be a surprise!!!!

Well, we thought we had a guest scheduled, but cancellations/postponements are all part of the game -- so,
Rory will be on the air, but probably not for a week or so, and probably on a Tuesday Night, 'cause sometimes Sundays are just hard....
having said all that, what will we do?
Well, we don't really know, so what you'll have to do is to listen --
we'll all find out together!!!
C Ya on the Radio!

"G-d's counting on Me, G-d's counting on You."

Of all the songs that Pete Seeger wrote, arranged, sung, and led us in singing, I think that this song should be his lasting testament. (At least this week.) Read the Lyrics. Listen tonight, after 10:00 PM on Steve's "Cookin' for Shabbos" show - he'll certainly be playing it. But understand what Pete is saying:
1)  Take Personal Responsibility  (notice G-d's counting on ME, is before G-d's counting on You)
2)  Trickle Up not Trickle Down - we can't trust the "leaders" we need to work from the ground up - Grassroots and all of that....

Pete Seeger. The true FOLK SINGER. Telling us about what's going on (this song originally came out in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) and encouraging us to keep going on.

You can find the song on the album, A More Perfect Union - Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt, released in 2013.

Pete - we thank you for all you gave us, and for all you will continue to give us.
Pete Seeger, we bid you good night.

GOD'S COUNTING ON ME, GOD'S COUNTING ON YOU

Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt's album version

Pete Seeger:		When we look and we see
		Things are not what they should be
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Seeger and chorus:		When we look and we see
		Things are not what they should be
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Seeger and chorus:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Bruce Springsteen:		It's time to turn things around
		Trickle up, not trickle down
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Springsteen and chorus:		It's time to turn things around
		Trickle up, not trickle down
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Lorre Wyatt:		And when drill, baby, drill
		Leads to spill, baby, spill
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Wyatt and chorus:		And when drill, baby, drill
		Leads to spill, baby, spill
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Pete Seeger:		Yes, there's big problems to be solved
		Let's get everyone involved
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Seeger and chorus:		Yes, there's big problems to be solved
		Let's get everyone involved
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Bruce Springsteen:		Now don't give up, don't give in
		Workin' together we all can win
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Springsteen and chorus:		Don't give up, don't give in
		Workin' together we all can win
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Pete Seeger:		What we do now, you and me
		Will affect eternity
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Seeger and chorus:		What we do, you and me
		Will affect eternity
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Pete Seeger:		Hey, kids!
Kids choir:		When we sing with younger folks
		We can never give up hope
Kids choir and Seeger:		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
Seeger, kids choir, and chorus:		When we sing with younger folks
		We can never give up hope
		God's counting on me
		God's counting on you
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you
Pete Seeger:		Singing again!
All:		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Hoping we'll all pull through
		Me and you C Ya on the Radio!!!

"Sunday Night Live" - Calling Bullshit on the BDS Movement, Live from Berkeley!

Well, it was bound to happen.

As you know, Radio Free Nachlaot's co-founder and Programming Director Lorelai Kude journeyed from Jerusalem to Berkeley a couple of months ago, where she's been staying in the "Peace Room" and investigating what she calls "The Knee-Jerk Reactionary 'Liberal' Heart of Darkness," otherwise known as the notorious anti-Israel, antisemitic activism that goes on in the Bay Area.

Jay Corwin, Academic & N/I Activist

L'kavod the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day in America, our "Sunday Night Live" Show will be broadcast LIVE FROM THE PEACE ROOM in an undisclosed location in Berkeley and feature Lorelai's recent "Heart to Heart" series of interviews exposing the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the BDS Movement ("Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions"), which in it's quest to align itself with legitimate causes has deliberately and disingenuously co-opted the narratives of the Native and Indigenous Peoples as well as that of other historically oppressed groups such as African-Americans, the GLBT community, and more.

Ryan Bellerose, Native/Indigenous Activist

For background and insight into the sly, manipulative use of terms such as "redwashing", "pinkwashing" and "greenwashing" by the BDS Movement and how the red, pink and green Peoples are fighting back, demanding the BDS symbol-usurpers to take their hands off narratives that don't belong to them, read Wendy Kenin's piece in the Times of Israel, and prepare yourself for "SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE FROM THE PEACE ROOM" - 7pm Jerusalem time on Sunday (that's 9am Pacific / 12N Eastern on Sunday, January 19th).

We'll be playing Lorelai's "Heart to Heart" (a Mitzvah Media Production for Radio Free Nachlaot) interviews with Blogger and Native/Indigenous activist RYAN MERVIN BELLEROSE,  South Africa-based academic and Native/Indigenous activist JAY CORWIN and Institute for Black Solidarity Founder DUMISANI WASHINGTON.

Dumisani Washington IBSI

Prefacing the following with a big, fat "l'havdil" - Just as Rebbe Nachman insisted on being buried in Uman, which he called "the Jaws of Hell" so that his Neshama would serve as a merit and a protection for the Jewish People exiled in the Ukraine, Lorelai feels that the time she spends in Berkeley should be spent inserting herself into the California version of "the Jaws of Hell" ("Berkeley, the Knee-Jerk Reactionary 'Liberal' Heart of Darkness")  in order to extricate the truth from the outrageous lies that are being told as if they were actual fact (which, of course, they're NOT).

Another small but important point here - Radio Free Nachlaot has always been what Steve and Lorelai like to call "family friendly programming," and although one of Lorelai's worst midot (character traits) is her propensity for using swear words and foul language (something she's been WORKING ON very hard to correct since starting RFN together with Steve, from whose lips no one in living memory has ever heard a curse word issue), her use of the word "Bullshit" in her "Heart to Heart" series "Calling Bullshit on BDS" is deliberate. Because there's a time and place for 'language' and this is the time, and this is the place. "Bullshit" is a term that denotes complete falsehood, and if anyone deserves to have "Bullshit" called on them, it's the BDS Movement, which has done harm to Israel and the Jewish People by spreading lies as if they were fact, and usurping the struggles of other Peoples illegitimately while using every means possible to discredit, marginalize and isolate Israel from the world community.

So ... it's not swearing. It's using the term "bullshit" responsibly and accurately.

#callingbullshitonBDS

We hope you'll enjoy this very special version of "Sunday Night Live" 7pm Sunday January 19th at 7pm Israel time / 9am Pacific / 12N Eastern, and visit "Heart to Heart with Lorelai" to download and listen to each one of these fascinating interviews!