‘Bulletproof Stockings’: Chasidic women rock
They keep kosher. They’re Chasidic. And they rock.
They keep kosher. They’re Chasidic. And they rock.
Less than 24 hours after performing with the Moshav Band at the Jewlicious Festival in Long Beach late on March 1, musical artist Matisyahu (aka Matthew Miller) was sitting in the bleachers of the frigid L.A. Kings Valley Ice Center in Panorama City, watching two of his sons, Laivy and Shalom, skate around the rink with 10 other young children as members of a new Los Angeles Jewish youth hockey league.
Cigarette in one hand and cup of tea in the other, Matisyahu sat down with JTA in his closet-sized dressing room during his European tour to talk about his life, his music, how he\’s raising his kids, and the recent changes in his religious outlook and physical appearance.
When Matisyahu, the 32-year-old Chasidic reggae superstar, appeared onstage for the first time since shaving his trademark beard, no one in the audience at the Boulder Theater seemed surprised.
The world\’s most famous Chasidic Jew has shaved his beard. With a declaration Tuesday morning that he was \”reclaiming\” himself, Jewish music star Matisyahu — a.k.a. Matthew Miller — shaved his signature beard and wrote, \”No more Chassidic reggae superstar.\”
Oded Turgeman, director of the new short film \”Song of David,\” doesn\’t do things the easy way.