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Introducing PunkTorah Radio!

June 15, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

We are excited to announce the launching of PunkTorah Radio, our new radio station through 8tracks.com. You can find us on 8tracks at 8tracks.com/punktorah. Here, every mix we publish on PunkTorah Radio can be accessed, not just the mix you find on the PunkTorah homepage.

Our station will promote music from Jewish artists all over the spectrum: rock, pop, indie, commercial– with or without Jewish subject matter.

This week’s 15-track mix features music from JDub artists Girls in Trouble, DeLeon, CAN!!CAN, Sagol 59, and The Sway Machinery. Other artists/bands include Matisyahu, Mirah, Rilo Kiley, Animal Collective, and more.

Do you make music? Are you in a band? If so, send it our way and we’ll review it to be added to the station. Have any ideas or suggestions of artists or songs for us to include? Let us know! Have questions about the radio or 8tracks.com? Send your mp3s, suggestions and inquiries to ashton@punktorah.org.

PunkTorah Radio is funded by generous donations. Support us by donating at punktorah.org/donations.

 

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OneShul and JOU PRESENT Positive Psychology & Judaism

February 14, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

Join us for an amazing online class on Positive Psychology & Judaism on Wednesday, February 16th at 7:00PM EST. We’ll be streaming a class on the fundamentals of making life more fulfilling through Positive Psychology and its connection to the ancient wisdom of the Torah and the Jewish people. Afterwards, Patrick and Michael will be hosting a live discussion.

RSVP here!

Join us in our virtual classroom: http://oneshul.org/taste-of-jou/

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Why I Am PunkTorah

February 10, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

Tzitzit, used by Creative Commons permission. Photo by 'AngerBoy'

You’ve probably read Patrick’s Jewcy blog post called, “You Might Be PunkTorah If…”. If not, here’s a link.
Read it.
It’s good.
It’s funny and it’s true.
It’s funny because it’s true.

It also made me think about why I helped co-found with PunkTorah. I think it stems from a sense of outsider-ness.

My wife and I go to Tot Shabbat services. We have a two year old. We stand around talking to other parents and we realize:

WE ARE NOT THESE PEOPLE

They seem like they are so much older, but they’re not.

They talk about their mortgages.
We stand there nodding our heads, trying to interject and talk about the concert we went to the night before, the religious ecstasy of watching another human being bare their soul in front of other people.
They wear khakis and polo shirts.
I wear my tzizits, a t-shirt and jeans.
They like pastels.
I have tattoos.
They’ve got paintings on the walls of their homes.
We have a giant pirate flag on ours.
They watch “Grey’s Anatomy”.
We watch South Park and our friends bands.
They read Tom Clancy and John Grisham.
We read Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon.

This is not to look down on responsible adults. This is only to ask:
Where do they come from? What happened to the promise of grown-up suburbia? Did my wife and I miss an exit somewhere?
I mean, we are responsible. We pay our bills. We take great care of our daughter. We go to work and pay our taxes. I guess it’s just that we don’t fit in the Dockers and loafers lifestyle.
So we temple shop. We go to services everywhere we can. We stand around with the other “adults” and wait for the opportunity to name drop some underground bands. We mention Matthue Roth or Y-Love, G_dcast, the religious orientation of Benjamin Grimm*, looking for a glimmer of recognition, a slight nod from another weirdo like us, hoping against hope that someone will hear us, someone will recognize the passwords to this secret club that we didn’t even know we belong to and show us the clubhouse we didn’t even know existed.

Well, if you’re looking for it, relax.

We’re here.

And you are welcome.

*If you said “Thing!” and “Jewish”, you are awesome.

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PunkTorah Radio: Living A Jewish Life Online

January 24, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

This week we discuss whether it is possible to live a Jewish life online. You probably already know our answer, but there’s more! And, Werewolf Bar Mitzvah! Aaah-ooooooooooooooh!

PunkTorah Radio: Living A Jewish Life Online

Subscribe on iTunes!

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PunkTorah Radio: RADIO!!

January 13, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

It’s here! It’s here!

This week we try something a little different! The podcast is a half-hour glimpse into the musical habits of the PunkTorah World Headquarters. A solid thirty, uh, something, minutes of cool Jewish music that we listen to, some you’ve probably never heard before! So get ready to take a musical journey!

PunkTorah Radio: RADIO!

Also, subscribe on iTunes!

Play List:

1. Rav Avraham Kook (by White Shabbos- Shabbos Holy Shabbos)

2. Mezuzah (by The Macaroons- Let’s Go Coconuts!)

3. Shalom Aleichem (by Tzipia- Tzipia)

4. I Love Torah (by Moshiach Oi!- Better Get Ready)

5. The Binding of Isaac (The Silence) (by Matt Bar- Bible Raps)

6. Ballad of the Exiled Prince (by The Mongrel Jews- Songs For A Minor)

7. Kahn (by CAN!!CAN- Monster and Healers)

8. Big Water (by  Shalom Feivel & Rocky Mountain Jewgrass- Live At Swallow Hill)

9. It’s All G!D (by Eprhyme- WAYWORDWONDERWILL)

10. The World Turns ON A Dime (by Clare Burson- Silver and Ash)

11. Let There Be Peace (by Trudy Kisser, Bobby Wolf, Herbert Novacek & Shlomo Carlebach- Shlomo Carlebach Live)

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