A Joyous Sound: Hava Nagila, Texas Style

A Canadian friend, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, married to a New Zealander, who now lives in the United States, sent me this video. She describes it as “a hoot, hootenanny style.” The email she forwarded to me with the link included this anonymous comment: WE CAN CELEBRATE EACH OTHER’S CULTURE, EACH OTHER’S ACHIEVEMENT, NO [...]

AlfonZo Rachel, Toilet Economics & the Success of Failure

AlfonZo Rachel is the founder of Macho Sauce Productions. He was born on Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana in 1972, but has lived in Southern California most of his life. A musician and martial artist, Mr. Rachel is a self-described Christian conservative republican. In his Zonation video, he uses a toilet as a metaphor for [...]

Rock the Matzah

Passover or Pesach begins on the 15th day of Jewish month of Nissan in the Diaspora, which this year is the evening of April 8, 2009. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and deliverance to freedom after enduring many generations of enslavement. Unleaven bread, or matzah, is eaten for the eight days of the festival. [...]