Stop Calling, Stop Calling, I Don't Want To Talk Anymore
Lipa Schmeltzer's new song, "Hang Up The Phone," raises some important questions.
If an anti-technology music video goes viral, is that success? Is break-dancing permitted during the Omer? What is a Orthodox Jewish robot permitted to do on shabbat? And is Schmeltzer, a controversial Hasidic pop singer, trying to replace Matisyahu in the frum-pop niche? Otherwise, what could he possibly be thinking? (h/t Josh Nathan-Kazis)
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Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in April 2012.
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