Lipa Schmeltzer – Jewcy https://jewcy.com Jewcy is what matters now Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:32:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 https://jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-12.43.12-PM-32x32.png Lipa Schmeltzer – Jewcy https://jewcy.com 32 32 Daily Jewce: Kosher Law, Joan Rivers, Shoshanna, and More https://jewcy.com/news/daily-jewce-kosher-law-joan-rivers-shoshanna-and-more?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daily-jewce-kosher-law-joan-rivers-shoshanna-and-more Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:00:37 +0000 http://www.jewcy.com/?p=129454 In the news today: the consequences of Kosher, Lipa Schmeltzer's uncanny valley, Joan Rivers quits Botox, and more

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• Slate’s Explainer asks what happens to Jews who don’t keep kosher.

• Joan Rivers says she’s done with Botox; plastic surgeons gather to mourn the end of an era.

• Josh Nathan-Kazis thinks he’s figured out what makes Hasidic pop star Lipa Schmeltzer so bizarrely fascinating.

• Barbra Streisand is directing her first film in 16 Years. Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett will star.

• Lena Dunham loves Schmidt almost as much as we do. In other Girls news, The Huffington Post put together a video of the best lines from Shoshanna.

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]]> Lady Gaga-Inspired Hasidic Luddite Robot Dance https://jewcy.com/news/lady-gaga-inspired-hasidic-luddite-robot-dance-spectacular?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lady-gaga-inspired-hasidic-luddite-robot-dance-spectacular https://jewcy.com/news/lady-gaga-inspired-hasidic-luddite-robot-dance-spectacular#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:29:57 +0000 http://www.jewcy.com/?p=129495 Lipa Schmeltzer's new music video—in which he sings against the evils of smartphones—must be experienced to be believed.

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Lipa Schmeltzer, a Skverer Hasidic musician who’s well known in the religious community but lacks anything like the crossover appeal of Matisyahu, has a new video out. And it’s strange. Like, Europop acid trip meets ’80s dance-techno meets Halakha—that kind of strange. There are devout men with sidelocks in silver facepaint and body armor that somehow made it off the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (the peak of the franchise, really). There’s a scene in which Schmeltzer pulls an egg out of a freezer filled with cellphones and iPads. There’s a dance number performed in front of a wall of bone China. And of course, there’s the song’s lyrics, in which, in a mix of English and Yiddish, Schmeltzer exhorts his listeners to not be so beholden to their smartphones. This is actually a message we can all get behind—your correspondent walked into a parked bicycle several nights ago while studying his iPhone’s hypnotically glowing screen—but Schmeltzer delivers it like no other. And of course, given the recent ultra-Orthodox rally at Citi Field against Internet use, Schmeltzer must be seen as coming from a far different, more dogmatic and austere place. But you have to admire the shiny packaging—and those spin moves.

[via The Forward]

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