This Week’s Jewish Fitness Fad Review:
Chai Bo: Come-Life

Jennie & Patrick say:

The anonymous author of Chai Bo informs us this powerful exercise/spiritual program is a mix of Chinese martial arts and Lithuanian minhag as studied at the Schvitzer Yeshiva of Shanghai.

The author tells us Chai Bo is not only a workout but also a lifestyle: including diet and Torah study. Each morning, after exercise, one should study a daf of the day or some sentences from the weekly Torah or Haftorah portion. In addition, Chai Bo offers prayers for the ability to exercise!

Daily Blessing for the Ability to Stretch Our Bodies
Baruch Ata Adonai, Elohaynu Memelch Ha-Olam Mahteer Ahsurim….

Daily Blessing for the Ability Strengthen Our Backs
Baruch Ata Adonai, Elohaynu Memelch Ha-Olam Zokayf K’fufim….

But better than tell you about Chai Bo — Let us show you in the video!

Chai Bo is a good workout. We give it a 6 out of 10 on the de-schlubometer. However, despite, Jennie’s weight registered as ERROR on the scale this week. Patrick lost another 2 lbs.!

Jennie Pounds Lost: 2, 11% on the Chicken Meter of her total goal of 18 lbs.

Patrick Pounds Lost: 4, 14% on the Groom Meter of his total goal of 28 lbs.

Each week Jennie & Patrick will be checking in with their progress, updating their stats and pics, as well as reviewing a Jewish fitness fad.

Next Week’s Jewish Fitness Fad:

Paula Abdul’s Get Up and Dance!

Tune in next week for their fitness update and fad review.

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This is week two of Jennie & Patrick’s fitness journal for your viewing pleasure. Not only will they be reporting the embarrassing details of their physical disrepair, but, like all good Jewish professionals should, they’ll be making this a Jewish fitness journey. Each week they’ll be reviewing a new Jewish fitness fad and reporting whether the Chosen method de-schlubinates as promised. Read Week One.

This Week’s Jewish Fitness Fad Review:
Kabbalah Yoga: Creating Your Own Fountain of Youth with Yvonne Dayan

Jennie says:

This DVD is more than just downward kosher dog and tree-of-life pose. Kabbalah Yoga promises “rejuvenation of your reproductive center,” thymus and pineal gland stimulation, and neuron growth. In fact, Kabbalah Yoga suggests you could add 20 or 30 more years to your life!

The 20 minute routine takes us through a series of yoga poses which, we are told, open our bodies and minds to each of the 10 Sephirot, the 10 aspects of G-d, which are also within us. By doing yoga poses to open our Malkush, Yesod, Hod, Netzach, Tiferet, Gevurah, Chesed, Binah, Keter, and Chokhmah, guru Yvonne Dayan says many wonderful goodies will come our way. However… I’ve been walking around with my Chokhmah open all week and no one’s even noticed.

In all seriousness, Kabbalah Yoga is a relaxing time, a fine yoga stretch, and decent Sephirot review for those of us who are Jewish professionals and may need to know this stuff.

As far as de-schlubinating: forget about it. I jogged, hip-hop danced, and skipped dessert to lose my 2 lbs. this week.

Pounds Lost: 2, 11% on the Chicken Meter of her total goal of 18 lbs.

Patrick says:

Now, I’m going to be honest here…I hate yoga. I’ve tried it twice and both times I found it to be a disturbing experience. Frankly, I have a musician’s body which is meant to run around, act crazy, get injured, and heal itself before getting back in the van. I’m not meant to feel the Will of the Universe or anything like that.

My second beef with yoga is that it’s impossible to follow the instructions and do the poses. I keep looking up at the screen to see what I’m supposed to do, then fall on my ass.

I’ve read the Cliff Notes version of the Zohar and I’m pretty sure that the Baal Shem Tov wasn’t into downward dog. I’ll leave this activity to those Ju-Bu’s I hear so much about. That’s all I can say without jumping into Lashon Hara territory.

A steady diet of my new favorite cocktail (Saint Germaine, orange vodka, and ginger ale) and the last remaining pieces of my fiancee’s bridal shower cake are not helping my cause on the dietary front.

I have found that using my iPhone “Lose It” app at least keeps me in a neurotic self-conscious state. My daily allotted calories are around 1,300, which, for me, is like skipping a meal and a half a day. I wonder if this constitutes a technologically induced eating disorder? But heck, I did lose two pounds. Go me!

Pounds Lost: 2, 7% on the Groom Meter of his total goal of 28 lbs.

Each week Jennie & Patrick will be checking in with their progress, updating their stats and pics, as well as reviewing a Jewish fitness fad.

Next Week’s Jewish Fitness Fad: Chai Bo

Tune in next week for their fitness update and fad review.

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Jennie says,

I used to be hot. Back in grad school I was called the “Babe of the Department”. Now granted, I went to Georgia Tech which buses in pretty women from Athens for the weekend. But, I was cute. Now it’s 15 years later and, well, I’m kinda fat, not obese, but squarely middle-class fat, and more importantly: unfit and out of shape. Yeah, it’s important for everyone to be fit and in good health, but especially for me. Genes are not on my side: I’ve already had cancer, for crying out loud. This Yom Kippur I confessed my sin of slovenliness and made a commitment to change during a very powerful Kapparot experience I describe here. Bottom line is that I made a promise to a chicken that I intend to keep. I’m turning 40 December 30th and I will be well on my way to fitnessful living by then. I’m in the busiest and most stressful part of my year right now and there is only one thing that will keep me exercising and prevent me from stuffing my face with chocolate gelt: publicly declaring my commitment to you all, dear readers.

Patrick says,

Back in the good ol’ days when I needed to lose weight, I’d go on tour with a rock band. There’s nothing like a healthy dose of cigarettes and ramen noodles to help you drop twenty pounds, and touring makes you much more self conscious because you spend every waking hour chasing after ladies. But I’m getting domestic. Can!!Can’s next tour isn’t until December and now that I’m engaged, I find my self sitting around on the couch with my dog watching The Office on Netflix more than pumping iron at the JCC. With my big speech in front of the General Assembly of Jewish Federations, my wedding, and my next Can!!Can tour only a few weeks away, I have all the reason in the world to lose this tire that HaShem (and a lot of my fiancee’s dairy-and-carbohydrate-rich vegetarian meals) have put on my gut. My goal is to lose nearly thirty pounds. Yes, I recognize that this goal is insane and that the only people who lose thirty pounds in a month are on the scarf-and-barf diet made popular by all the After School Specials that I used to watch as a kid…but I think by setting an out-of-reach goal, I’ll be able to make more progress, faster, than if I tried to be realistic.

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Each week Jennie & Patrick will be checking in with their progress, updating their stats and pics, as well as reviewing a Jewish fitness fad. This Week’s Jewish Fitness Fad: Kabbalah Yoga Tune in next week for their fitness update and fad review.

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Instead of latkes and yarmulkes with a side of haftorah, the global network produces events in bars, galleries and warehouses featuring funk bands, photographers and a variety of artists. Salons in Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Mexico City have succeeded in connecting young unaffiliated or alienated Jews to each other and to a more open, inspiring and inclusive side to Judaism.

Alan is the Director of Salon Mexico City and Natasha Uren is a volunteer and member: here they tell us about this alternative approach to Jewish identity South of the Border.

Alan, how did the Jewish Salon project come about? The Jewish Salons was launched in Tel Aviv in 2006 by Benny Bailey and a group of young Israelis thirsty to connect "Jewishly" but uninterested in and bored by the limited programming offered by traditional Jewish institutions. By 2009 local Salons had been established in Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Mexico City. In each of these cities, a coordinator works with a group of local activists to produce fresh cultural alternatives that fuse Jewish themes with local and international art for young Jews. Last year some 14 events were produced in the four Salon cities and we hope to open in Berlin in November. Natasha, tell us about Salon Mexico — who comes? where do you meet? Salon Mexico City is a wild bunch. We´ve got crazy event producers, designers, artists and practically anyone interested in exploring  "jewish identity" through unconventional ways. As a group, we´re not afraid of asking questions that are relevant to our everyday life and answering them in ways that sometimes do not feel Jewish at all. Sometimes our conversations are about Judaism and sex and other times we talk about revolution and Judaism. The conversation is always exciting and passionate. One night we can discuss what Judaism means to non-Jews in Mexico, the next we cover how Judaism mixes with Latin culture. Our core group of event organizers meet once a week in a house in the Condesa neighborhood. Unlike most of the other Jewish organizations around us, we are not institutionalized. In other words, we don´t depend on any big Jewish federation or JCC. This means that we set up our very own agenda, hoping to bring a vibrant Jewish scene to the Mexican landscape. This freedom is what has kept us alive. What are some of your most memorable events?

Kosherotica was one of our best as we set out for an evening of unorthodox exploration of Jewish sexuality along with a glass of wine or two. Besides the hard to miss debut of The Chosen Condom,  Sara Young, an American Jew who took on Jewish ancient adultery rituals with an interpretive performance, Luis Perelman, the founder of Shalom Amigos spoke about the LGBT connection to Judaism and a man and woman cellists "flirted" with each other through their music.

What is it like to be Jewish in Mexico? What do you see as the marked differences between Mexican Jews and American Jews?

The Jewish community in Mexico is awfully complicated and very closed minded. It´s divided into four sects: Ashkenazim, Sefaradim, Halebi and Shami (the last two are from Syria and the only difference between them is one is from Damascus and the other one from Alepo). Unlike the American Jews we have no Reform movement.  We have a very small number of mixed marriages. Mexican Jews tend to say we have the smallest number of assimilation per year, which is basically accomplished through a reign of terror:  anyone who decides to live in a mixed marriage or out of what the community considers appropriate is immediately segregated. The two Conservative temples perform conversions, but they don’t make it easy.

Alan, how did you get involved with the Jewish Salons?

Coming back from a year long trip to Israel I was faced with a hard fact about Mexican reality: the Jewish community was so self-involved, conservative and insular that it seemed that it was not offering spaces for new explorations of Jewish identity. In dealing with the this situation I found that I was distancing myself from the whole Jewish thing completely. I felt myself becoming a harsh critic of Judaism in general. Feeling as though my Jewish identity was, in some way, not of essence to my whole being. In short: I was "Jewed out" of the mainstream institutions. It was during my semester scholarship to Berkeley that my whole outlook on Judaism changed drastically. I took a course called "Cultures of The Jews", an incredible seminar that changed my perspective as to what Judaism was all about; I came to realize there are lots of types of Judaism. Soon after I started a Facebook group for Mexico’s Jews called "The Other Community"  where people could discuss anything related to Judaism and everyday life. With discussions that were spicy and controversial the group grew to over 400 members in less than a month and a half. I had tapped into a gold mine. It dawned on me that there where Jews in Mexico interested in expanding their visions of Judaism based in their everyday experiences with the contemporary globalized world. By the time I got back to Mexico, everyone was asking me what the next step was going to be. I felt alone and overwhelmed.This is where the Jewish Salons came in. One regular weekday I met with a couple of crazy Israelis that were hoping to set up an alternative space for Jews in Mexico. It dawned on me that this change in approaching Judaism was not only happening here, but had more to do with a generational movement spreading throughout the Jewish world. I felt comforted and secure when I realized I had the support. Since then and up till now every experience that I´ve had with the Jewish Salons has helped me realized the importance of this shift. Now, more than ever, the Salons have transformed into a personal mission to understand where I stand as Jew, not only in the local sphere but internationally.

What do you hope The Salons will bring to the Jewish culture in Mexico?

I see the role of Salon Mexico City as being a catalyst for new expressions of Jewish culture, a vehicle for a safe and creative interaction with the broader Mexican reality.  It´s an educational experience, designed to challenge the ways in which Judaism is approached, opening new ways in which Jews can deal with their Judaism in their own particular way.

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Read more about the Jewish Mexican community Alan Grabinsky’s piece for PresenTense Magazine: Super Shtetl in the South

Learn about starting a Jewish Salon in your city: How To Start a Jewish Salon

Join in: Salon Mexico City’s Facebook Group

Connect with people like Alan & the author, Jennie, at Limmud — a movement of learning for all Jewish people:  LimmudFest for Atlanta & The South East is happening Labor Day Weekend. Join in: LimmudSE.

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The story of the Four Sons illustrates how the Wise, Wicked, Simple, and Don’t Know How to Ask all "ask" different questions and, therefore, require different answers. One interpretation of this story is that each of these "dispositions" is within all of us, at different times, and to different degrees. A combination of different Haggadot perhaps best reaches these different parts of ourseleves and better answers the diverse ages and religious beliefs that are no doubt gathered at the seder table. From now on, each year we will be blending to create our own perfect-for-us mix of Passover Haggadot.

Here are my picks for Passover Seder 2010.

For The Wise Within Us:

From the raw foods chef Debra Mazer in collaboration with Cantor Shira Batalion is the new for 2010 Open-Eyed Heart-Wide Haggadah. Beautifully illustrated by Margo Akroyd, this Haggadah is a progressive ritual guide for Passover that is spiritually inclusive, multicultural, and inspirational.

For The Wicked (Funny):

Bangitout.com is once again publishing their Seder Sidekick. Last year, the comedic interludes made the adults laugh out loud. We especially enjoyed the David Letterman style Top 10 lists. Stay tuned for its 2010 release.

For Our Simple Sides:

I was not a fan when I first heared of the 30 Minute Seder. Judging a book by its title, it seemed pat, but after reading I admit it’s quite good. It is, well, simple… but complete. We will use this book as our seder outline and then spice it up with the Wise & Wicked picks.

For The One Who Doesn’t Yet Know How To Ask:

Why We Celebrate Passover by Howard Kurtz is a vibrantly colorful simple storybook for children ages two to seven. The story of Passover is told from Joseph to the Exodus in rhyme. I’ve read a lot of children’s Passover books and really like this one.

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Now imagine if your chance of winning 1 Million is 1 out of 5! That’s what the Orthodox folks at Friendship Circle are facing. This non-profit that helps special needs kids is in the top five to win the Chase Community Giveaway of 1 Million dollars. Votes are accepted through Friday and the winner will be determined on Shabbat. So imagine what will happen when Chase calls or knocks on the door and no-one answers because everyone is in shull?!

ModernTribe fan Pinny Gniwisch called me to pimp his ridiculous video (in which he stars) to help spread the word about the very wonderful charity Friendship Circle. Instead of the video, I find the Shabbat conflict much more worthy of sharing.

Friendship Circle is a non-profit dedicated to enriching the lives of individuals with special needs through play-therapy based programs that pair teens and special friends together to form a life-changing bond of friendship.

You can help confuse Chase (and tempt the Orthodox) by casting your vote for Friendship Circle through Friday, January 22 at http://votefc.com/

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Go right ahead and believe! I tried to believe in G-d, but couldn’t take the leap.

First, thank you, Patrick, for not trying to use logic or science to argue for the existence of a supernatural being. Those arguments fail, always.  As your religious experience illustrates, people don’t need science or logic to believe in G-d. There is a very good "reason" to believe: afeeling, a powerful emotional connection, a gut-level knowing, a leap of faith.

Human behavior is largely irrational and emotionallydriven about many things — most things that matter, anyhow. So, keeping that in mind, I see no problem with people throwing logic to the wind and taking a leap of faith to believe in G-d. However, I do have to pick one nit: please give us atheists some credit — just because we don’t believe in G-d does not mean that we "don’t believe in something other than bagels and Seinfeld."

Science and faith are not an either/or. It’s not just science that I believe in. Science is an amazing tool that we witness the truth of every time we switch on a light, make a phone call, or are helped by medicine.I whole-heartedly believe in the power of science to advance our understanding of the world.

However, science is limited when it comes to understanding what should be. Biology and evolution have a something to say about ethics and morals — at least, how they may have developed. But as far as helping me determine how I, one human being on this Earth living one lifetime, should live and find meaning in my life — science does a terrible job.

So what do I do? I choose to believe unsubstantiated things which I feel wholly, in my gut, to be true. Some of things are that people matter, that Jewish people matter, that Jewish peoplehood matters, and that Judaism is a positive force in the world. It is important that I support Jewish peoplehood and have made it my life’s work to do so. It is important to raise my child Jewish.

Without G-d I "believe that the world is worth more than what [I] canpillage and rape from it." Way beyond that: I feel connected to the world and humanity and that my life is meaningful. Can any of these things I take on faith be shown through science or reason that they really matter — as in up in the sky, ultimate truth Matter with a capital M? No. However, I feel these things to be true so I choose to believe. I think it’s great that you get a similar sense of connection and meaning through G-d. But when it comes to me and G-d, I’m just not feelin’ it.

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Reality One: The "Do You Think They Are Going To Like Me?" Discussion. All couples have this discussion, but the Jewish person has the additional worry of, "will they not like me because I’m Jewish?" Tali softballs the issue by asking, "How do I need to prepare to meet your dad?" Luke doesn’t catch her drift, so Tali gets more direct, "Do you think your dad is going to ask me questions about being from a different religion?" He assures her Dad will, but says, "I don’t think it would cause him not to like you." He doesn’t know his dad so well.

Reality Two: Worrying About How The Truth Will Come Out. ‘Jewish’ isn’t usually obvious. Jewish is something that has to be revealed — somehow — and in some way, hopefully before a blunt refusal to swallow the wafer. Tali has it easy because she is from Israel, so immediately upon revealing that fact most people will assume she is Jewish. For me, it was months (if not years) before some of my non-Jewish family and I discussed my Jewishness. Luke’s dad frames his question (Are you a Jew?) like this, "As far as being Israeli, how do you feel about Christianity?" Reality Three: The Family Blessing In Jesus’ Name. Have all interfaith couples experienced this? I suspect yes. It is the family blessing which starts with clasped hands, bowed heads, and the silverback male of the family providing a few words of gratitude for food and family. Most of it is wonderful and good and not too different from a bracha; however, instead of thanking G-d, the Jewish person is preoccupied with asking Him for a favor: "oh please, G-d, let him thank you and leave the other guy out of it." Tali grins and bears it well. Reality Four: The Relative Who Really Gets It. Our non-Jewish significant other loves us, wants to know us, and deeply respects our Jewishness, or we wouldn’t be in this relationship. So where does that openness, respect, and curiosity come from? There is usually at least one, if not several, non-Jewish family members that are open, respectful, curious, and possibly pleased with our Jewishness. I am blessed to have many members of my family-in-law who fit this description. Tali found this person to be Luke’s mom, who immediately sensed the connection between Tali and Luke, regardless of the religious differences. I’m sure there are more "realities" of getting serious with a non-Jew. Readers, please share your experiences in the comments! For now, I’ll sign-off with a hardy thank you (not in Jesus’ name) to Fox TV producers for showing these realities!

Cross posted on: blog.ModernTribe.com

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We will choose a name and the winning suggestor will win the Doodlebook Frame (with original art).

Don’t be mean or inappropriate, please!

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When you told me you were a DJ, I assumed your music would be "Jewish" — meaning you would be sampling from JDub artists, traditional melodies, or Hebrew pop but most of what I’ve heard does not include any of this Jewish music. I’m excited that you will be doing some of this in the future. But is there a reason why you didn’t go there to begin with?

I don’t rock bar mitzvahs. I’ve never dropped Hava Negilah at a wedding. There are no outright pieces of Tehillim and Shema in the songs I play. (Well, at least, not yet.) But my music reflects my spiritual journey and experiences as a practicing Jew who strives to always be learning, growing and developing.

From Miriam at the Red Sea to Matisyahu’s recording studio, the Jewish people have been making music. The Jewish people have been kicked out from country to country for as long as we have been the Jewish people. From this perspective of being a people on a journey, the closest thing to "true" Jewish music we probably have today is the proverbial jam band, working it out and breaking sweats with jams that go on and on and never seem to end. This is a lot like house music: one track mixes into another, into another, into another, into another… I heard one Rabbi say that DJing is probably the closest we have to emulating the transitory wandering Jewish experience around the world.

On the other hand, there is lot of sexy Jewish hip-hop being played at clubs today that create the same physical response on the dance floor as any other kind of hip hop, regardless of the fact that the lyrics are "Jewish" and the music is made by Jews. If you take the music behind some of Matisyahu’s tracks, minus the vocals, and drop the track at a hip-hop club, with sweaty people freaking each other to it, is his music still holy?

Your music is certainly universally appealing. Is a non-Jew experiencing something Jewish listening to your music?

Judaism is about tikkun olam (healing the world), not about racking up the converts and making everyone Jewish. Non-Jews are made B’tzelem Elokim, in the image of G-d, just as much as Jews are, and they are on just as much of a divine trip as anybody else. To the extent that music makes people feel more connected, they become closer to G-d. People are hungry for spirituality and music is a universal language that everyone can understand. So in this way they are experiencing something not only Jewish, but also G-dly and unifying.

I hear. Considering the power of music to affect our state of mind, people can often achieve a meditative, trance-like state on the dance floor. Is this what you are referring to as the sense of "unity"?

Yes, prophets used music to raise themselves spiritually so that they could receive prophecy. They achieved a meditative trance-like state with the help of music, and this was their launching pad into a direct connection with G-d. Music touches us so deeply because it transcends culture, language, and the things that separate us as human beings: it helps us to become one. This is why nigguns, or lyric-less songs, are so powerful. There comes a point where the inner truth of something can’t be communicated through words and has to be experienced.

When we connect with music we are tapping into the highest of cosmic sources. That is why it is important to keep the instrument-of-the-self tuned and in-tune with one another. Although we no longer experience prophesy, we can still experience transcendence through music and gain insights into ourselves, each other, and life in general.

You’ve said that house music is the antithesis of "angry" Metal music but there are downbeat and "evil beats" that are part of electronic music. Do these play a role in your mixes?  In other words, is there room for "dark" if not angry?

My DJ mixes are the soundtrack to my life over the last twelve years, and reflect whatever I was going through at the time. I am mastering my latest mix right now that is called SoulSpeak that was one of the hardest musical projects I have ever done. It spans the course of relationships and reflects the spectrum of love from the intoxicating high of someone new to the deepest lows of heartache.

Darker music serves a purpose to relay expression of the darker times in life and communicate to people that life can sometimes be hard. Sometimes things aren’t always happy and cheery, but at the end of the day, the world was created out of love and positivity, and love always wins. So too, any dark music that I use is only for the sake of contrast between lighter tones and vibes. The energy of music is created by the person playing it, so if the DJ is angry, the music will be angry. Put a canvas in front of an angry person and you’ll get angry art. Of course there is room for ‘anger or dark’ in any kind of music. As long as people create music, it will be influenced by people and their souls.

Life is about ups and downs. We complain about the downs we experience from time to time, but you and I both know that if the vibe of life were totally flat-lined, we’d complain that it was boring and that nothing exciting every happened. Nothing in this world truly stands alone: as evil is here so that we know good; dark helps us recognize and experience the light, and this is just as true with music as anywhere else.

Related to dark, there is sexy and sensuous in your music too, do you believe this sensuality is also part of experiencing or connecting with G-d?

Sex is the holiest thing that we have on earth because it is the physical expression of the cosmic equation of Love…of two becoming one. Therefore, sensuality and sexuality in their highest forms are expressions of the desire to connect to G-d. The lush tones of jazz, the voluptuous basslines in funk music, the dubbed out breakbeats in hip-hop music, even the rhythmic nature of niggunim and people banging their hands on the Shabbos table has structural parallels to the physical expression of love. Instruments playing together we perceive as unified, synergized expressions fused into a single experience, making us feel connected to each other and to G-d.

I know you are in school for business and apparently very gifted at marketing. What role do you see your DJing taking in the future?  Where would you like it to go?

Music is the soundtrack to my life. As long as I’m alive I’ll be making music. Whether this translates into a family band after I get married or playing center stage at Jewlicious, music will always be a huge part of my life.

One thing that is on the horizon is mixing my music with my business adventures. I’m working on a CD for Threaded Heritage Clothing. I don’t have a working title for the mix yet, however I am going to select music from a variety of culturally and religiously distinct artists that are all aligned in the mission for world peace. Much like the Connected mix that I did in 2005, the Threaded Heritage mix will be a musical metaphor for what’s possible in the world when all of the elements of humanity work together rather than against each other, and appreciate and celebrate our similarities rather than fight about our differences.

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Between DJ gigs, Eric Rosen is the Director of Brand Marketing for the Jewlicious Festival and Threaded Heritage Clothing. He is also working on an MBA from the University of Southern California. Take a listen to twelve mixes Eric produced over the last eleven years. Enjoy, feel free to share with friends, and as always, listen with love ?

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