The Nigun Project: In the fifth installment of The Nigun Project, The Sway Machinery’s Jeremiah Lockwood collaborates with rappers Dan Wolf, left, and Tommy Shepherd, right, of the hip-hop collective Felonious, on a melody inspired by a story about the Baal Shem Tov.
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- When Marc Weds Chelsea
Let’s get the formalities out of the way. We wish the happy couple siman tov u’mazel tov. A good sign and good fortune. Those sentiments translate in any religion, true? After that, the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky gets a little complicated. Even though the bride is not Jewish and appears to have no intention of converting, there is an undeniable dose of tribal pride walking down the aisle here. The fact that the well-respected, well-protected daughter of one of America’s most powerful political couples chose to marry the grandson of a Jewish immigrant peddler is a milestone of sorts, a measure of social acceptance, a sign that we’ve arrived.
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