Noam and Jonah Brenner Rock
Check out this SWEEEEEEEEET article on Noam and Jonah in the New Jersey Jewish News (kudos Johanna and Andy – love it)
Noam and Jonah Brenner on Myspace
Check out Noam and Jonah’s album in progress “Holidays with the Jews Twins” on their Myspace page: www.myspace.com/noamandjonahbrenner
Flashback alert!
If you are on Facebook, you can check out the recently posted grainy B& W video (hat tip to Charles Schletzbaum) of Rob Spears and I recieving the State Championship trophy for Varsity Debate in 1986. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=98418417328&comments= I am acting all cool, like it didn’t mean much. But it was HUGE!!!!!!
Still Killing
I know that most of the people on the planet could care less, but I am thrilled that Killing the Buddha now has a Rabbi Daniel Brenner page! Yes, all three of my warped pieces can now be located on one easy webframe! Allelujah! p.s. that photo is circa 1994…folksinger days…back when the only chords I knew were Am and G….
Two Eight defies the ayn navi b’iro rule…sort of
Nice little write up in the hyper-local online ‘zine Baristanet. But noone can beat the kudos for the clerk at the wine shop in West Orange who sings mah nishtana.
Blessing the Sun in Montclair New Jersey Bircat Hachama:
#28
I just heard that I’m one of the 50 Infuential Rabbis named by Newsweek Magazine. Although I can think of many more influential rabbis who should be on this list, it is great for Birthright Israel NEXT to get this kind of exposure. And I am happy to be standing next to Rabbi Art Green, #27. Fourteen years ago, he blessed me and my beloved under the chupah – so it is fitting that we are joined at the hip….
The Luke Ford Interview
The journalist Luke Ford shot me a few questions. Though he got my name wrong (classic journalist move, no?) he asked some fine questions. Anyways…here’s the piece: Here’s my first post about Rabbi David Brenner. His response. I then reached out to Rabbi Brenner via Facebook. Tonight I sent him these questions and he promptly emailed back his response. LF: How should Kellogs have reacted when their spokesmodel Michael Phelps was photographed smoking marijuana? Rabbi: From a marketing perspective? They…
Why, Why, Why
Check out JDUB: http://blog.jdubrecords.org/2009/03/10/best-submission-ever/ In the Video below you can hear the full track!
A Little Brooklyn: Batsheva, Mabou Mines Dollhouse
This past week was one of those ‘only in brooklyn’ types. Thursday night i got to see Batsheva Dance Company’s MAX at BAM – a magnificent display of athletic dance which was enhanced by factory sound effects and some proto-Romance language voiceovers. Then Sat night we went to St. Anne’s Warehouse in DUMBO to check out Mabou Mines Dollhouse (which cast dwarves for all the male parts) it was ‘avant-garde silly.’ Most compelling was the casting of a primordial dwarf…