My Pick for City Council Wins: David Greenfield

I may not live in Broolyn or NY anymore for that matter. However, I'm happy to see that my pick for City Council has won! David Greenfield, 31 has some tough work ahead of him and I'm sure we'll start to see some positive changes in local goverment. It would seem the Dov Greenfield has won by a landslide victory for the special election seat for city council in Brooklyn 58 to 40%. This is a blow to Assemblyman Dov Hikind who put all his political capital into backing rival Mr. Lazar. It should be interesting to see how things will progress from here. Congrats David!

City Council Elections: Brooklyn

Although I have left NY for Houston I still like to be in touch with the current political climate and the news that is coming forth. A special election is taking place March 23rd for  Brooklyn city council for the seat recently vacated by Simcha Felder and it has certainly had some interesting twists and intensity. One of the potential candidates who is merely a teenager, namely eighteen year-old Abraham Tischler was removed from the race. The Daily News reported that the petition signatures for Tischler, who was hoping to be the youngest member of the  city council, came from outside the district or were improperly dated. Another young candidate  Mr. Judge a sophmore at Turo college was also removed after his petitions were challenged. Currently the showdown is between Joe Lazar and David Greenfield. I would like to show my support for David Greenfield and ask you to support his efforts for city council. I can personally atest to his characted as I used to spend many days at his home and had many conversations with him long before he was even married. He was always a very bright and highly ethical straight shooter and I think he'll bring the changes the  nieghborhood needs in order to continue to prosper. He's not a media hog in the sense that others in local politics are (some of which never saw a microphone they didn't like.) It is my hope that he will win the election and bring about some change in the local government in Brooklyn. Good Luck David!

Thieves Can Get Into Your Car!: Beware!!!

This just happened to a relative of mine the other night in NY. She was coming home from shopping and left a whole bunch of Passover pots and pans and various items in the car. She had gone to sleep when she thought she heard  her car beep as if she had opened it. Of course she thought she was hearing things and forgot about it. The next morning  she went to the car and everything was gone with no sign of a break in! A thief  had somehow stolen the code from her wireless remote and just went in and grabbed what they wanted. If you have an older car this is certainly something to worry about: Theoretically, a code grabber with a computer attached could figure out basic rolling code signals and anticipate the next code in the sequence and just open your card door. The way to thwart theives is to have a remote with encrypted codes. Please pass this information along. The least costly solution: lock your doors manually.

Jewish wedding music video: Lo Ovo

Shia (Yeshoshua)Solomon, a well known one-man-band player from NY singing Avraham Fried's Lo Ovo. Listen to the bass player Toni Montabo also.

Teaneck Mourns the Loss of 2 Killed in Accident

A horrible accident occured in Teaneck, NJ when strong winds knocked a tree that killed 2 congregants of the The Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck this past Saturday night. The 2 victims  were Ovadia Mussaffi, 49, president of The Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck on Jefferson Avenue and Lawrence Krause, 54,a well-known Manhattan personal injury attorney both of Winthrop Road . They were on thier way back from shul when the tree fell upon them. There was a further complication in that the power lines came down along with the tree and the bodies could not be removed for some time.

Non-Jews Singing at Religious Jewish Weddings

Certainly non-Jews have been performing at Orthodox Jewish weddings for years. Some of the more notable ones: Carmine D' Amico (now in Arizona), Mat Hill, George Hooks, Ron Bertolet etc. but it's quite unusual to ever see a non-Jew being allowed to sing (let alone one that would know how) at a religious Jewish wedding.

It first started out as a you tube video filmed by Eitan Katz here. Well now  it seems that Nolan Jackson got his chance to sing "Binyan Adei Ad" at an actual Jewish wedding. As you can see someone is trying to convert him by putting a black hat on his head. There is a certain level of "shtick" to the whole performance. I'm certain there are some who would certainly not approve. Of course the other side would say you have non-Jews playing...why can't they sing too? What do you make of it?

Miami Boys Choir Rehersal Video: Im Eshkachech

I just came across this video and of course you can tell it's not the actual rehearsal audio footage. You can see the lip syncing to some degree. I remember these days way back when but this video is missing the real footage like kids forgetting their lines and singing off key.