Meet A-WA, the 3 sisters of a hot Yemeni electro-hip hop band and free yo mind with a selection of alternative tunes from the Shtetl bondage and slavery Passover playlist. The rest…will follow.
Tag Archives: holidays
Liad Hussein Kantorovic is an Israeli living in Berlin. A maven of kitsch, Kantorovic has a campy take on the Passover seder. Click the play button below to hear it. Tune in for more about Israelis in Berlin this Friday …
The 10 Plagues of Passover as told from an Indigenous perspective by Nathan and Howard Adler: twin brothers from Ottawa of both Jewish and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe heritage.
Posted in Ritual
Tagged Exodus, holidays, Idle No More, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Mile End Chavurah, Nishuyuu, passover, Pesach
From the Guinness world of horseradish to Dayenu flash mobs. It’s all going down here!
If the Mayans are right the messiah will be here tonight! Get an end-of-times 101 from Prof.Lorenzo DiTomasso. Robby Hoffman talks about the messiah as a little Lubavitch girl. Matt Goldberg talks X-mas at the Goldberg home.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Confabulation, holidays, Lorenzo DTomasso, Matt Golberg, Mayan prophecy, Robby Hoffman, X-Mas
Satrangi, which means rainbow in Hindi, explores the kinds of light that come around this time of the year. Montreal has many faiths that celebrate light. Satrangi at Infinite Theatre is a mulit-faith, mulit-media dance extravaganza.
Posted in Events
Tagged art, Dance, holidays, Infinite Theatre, light, multi faith
By the time Passover ends, We, the descendents of the ancient Israelites, inevitably succumb to what psychiatrists and rabbis have called Post-Halachic Stress Disorder.
This week on Shtetl, beloved Montreal rabbi Ronnie Cahana, the preachings of Dr. Bronner and his Magic Soap, and a live rendition of the Kol Nidre by Shtetl’s favourite indie-pop cantor Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Daniela Gesundheit, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap, holidays, Karen Cahana, Kol Nidre, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, Snowblink, yom kippur
Egyptian Montrealer, Ehab Lotayef speaks about the uprising in Egypt today and the paralells with the ancient Passover story. And, Avi Grenadier, host of Radio 613, talks about Jewish radio in Kingston, anarchism and the contradiction between freedom and the Passover seder.
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Avi Grenadier, Egypt, Ehab Latoyef, holidays, passover, Radio 613, seder
In the spirit of Purim, Shtetl decided to approach C.J. Goldman, mask and monster-maker, artist and creator of wrinkles, wounds and whatever else you can think of.
Posted in Visual arts
Tagged CJ Goldman, Death Race, holidays, masks, Purim, special effects