Ryan Torok
Nick Melvoin: Blending Camp Fun With Social Justice
“For me, the hook was working with kids,” Nick Melvoin responded when asked why he decided to volunteer for Camp Harmony.
Alisa Malki and Caryn Roth: Changing Lives One Challah at a Time
It was 2006. Alisa Malki (at left in photo) was hanging out in Caryn Roth’s UCLA dorm room when she told her friend about a nonprofit organization called Challah for Hunger she’d heard about on National Public Radio.
Sharing in the Celebration
Since not everybody in the room knew the Chanukah story, David Nava took the time to tell it. He explained it rudimentarily, saying that a very small band of Jews, fighting for their right to practice their religion, defeated a very large army of Greeks.
DJ Diwon Brings Jewish Fusion West
If the photos on Erez Safar’s MySpace page make it seem like he’s busy, that’s because he is. The 30-year-old genre-bridging DJ and multi-instrumentalist, who performs under the name Diwon, is also a producer and CEO of the Jewish indie label Modular Mood Records as well as the founder of New York’s Sephardic Music Festival and Shemspeed.com, a super-site that promotes Jewish concerts and artists.
Still Playing After All These Years
Football and Thanksgiving have gone together since the first professional league formed in 1902. It’s an American tradition found in every level of the game, from high school to the NFL’s Thanksgiving Classic.
Smooth-E’s Jewtronic Music-Making [HONIKA ELECTRONICA]
Eric Schwartz has accomplished a lot in one day. He’s played dreidel with a Lady Gaga impersonator, avoided a meteor shower of mitzvah balls in space, fended off Martians and spent time text messaging in a synagogue — which he refers to as “temple textin’” — all by 6 p.m. There’s an hour to go before production on his new music video, “Honika Electronica,” wraps in Burbank, bringing an 11-hour shoot to a close.
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