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Jewish cultural radio from Berkeley. Featuring interviews with artists, scholars, rabbis, and activists, and always great music. Primary Format : Ethnic Also Listed as: Culture Ethnic Jewish Judaism City : Berkeley State/Province : CA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Pop Culture | New music | Ethnic | Jewish | Judaism | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Oy Mendele! Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Oy Mendele! Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Oy Mendele! Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 7/22: The Rock Show Israeli Punk, Liz Nord, Danny Ben-IsraelLiz Nord, the director ofJericho's Echo, a documentary about punk in Israel, joins us to discuss same. 2 songs each from Israeli hardcore bandsהפוסי של לוסי (Lucy's Pussy)andנקמת עוללים (Nikmat Olalim/Babies'Revenge). The music may be derivative, but these bands are punk as punk, back to the roots: Using punk as a vehicle for political and social messages, and as a way of standing apart from conformist social conventions.For the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8/8: Hitler's Jewish Psychic, and more and more For our early Av episode we bring to you:Hitler's Jewish Psychic: Erik Jan Hanussen was a Jewish carny-slash-psychic-slash-tabloid-publisher. He was also instrumental ingetting Hitler into the Reichstag. Dr. Mel Gordon, whowrote the book on Hanussen, tells us all about it.Andy Statman's new record,Avodas Halevi, reviewed by Zac Jaffee.Dawn 2005: Rabbi Sydney Mintz of Congregation Emanuel in San Francisco explains why she celebrated Shavuot in a club at 6th and Mission in SF.Invisible Citi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10/3: Rosh Hashanah Yehudit and Reuven Goldfarb of Berkeley's Aquarian Minyan discuss Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year/birthday of the word. Plus some neat music from Greece and the US.Shanah Tovah (Good year) to all. This isn't really a full show, just a timely morsel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Call In and Be Heard! Oy Mendele! invites you to leave us a message; we'll be incorporating these voicemail messages into future programs.The phone number is1-510-962-5265. Thisis a regular US call.We're currently requesting comment on the following:The Gaza Withdrawal: Is this truly a momentous event, or merely a tactical footnote in the tortued history of the region? Is the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza likely to bring the peoples of Israel and Palestine any closer to reconciliation?NPR's Mideast Coverage: T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ya Ribon Alam by Divahn Here's a sample mp3 of Divahn's music -- a Shabbat song called'Ya Ribon Alam', that was also played and discussed in our interview withYair Dalal. Divahn's version features two instruments you normally wouldn't associate together -- tabla and a banjo, kinda like maybe they invited Kinky Friedman over for Shabbat or something.Check it out. Divahn's visiting from Austin and playing in SF on Thursday July 14, full details and interview to follow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5/1: May Day (and Passover) Show This episode features labor activist, musician and historianHenry Fonersinging labor songs and discussing the history and present of the labor movement.In the wake of the Conservative movement's inability to decide whether or not to ordain gay rabbis, UC Berkeley professorDr. Daniel Boyarinhelps us understand the idea of homosexuality in the context of Jewish thought.Shabot6000creator Ben Baruch discusses how and why he draws a comic strip about an Orthodox man who builds a robot to do work ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The So Called Seder We justgot our hands our hands on Socalled's new oneThe So Called Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah, and just in the nick of time too.Quick verdict: the real deal. No longer klezmer/hip-hop like HiphopKhasene, Socalled goes all out hip-hop, and the denser mix, with many layers of samples, breaks, and guests, feels clearer and harder than the last one.You can listen to a sample ofThe Four Questionshere, and get the full scoop atSocalled's siteor atJDub. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yair Dalal Inteview (with Music) Here's an opus set with Israeli oud/violin player, composer, and lover of the desertYair Dalal. Dalal has released 9 albums, and has played around the world, notably at the Nobel PeacePrize gala in 1994, and at the 2004WOMADfestival.Dalal's music encompasses all of the musics of the Middle East and highlights the interconnectedness of Arab and Jewish music and culture.This segment contains 3 songs by Dalal, one by Iraqi/Israeli singer Filfel Georgy, and discussion of the music, culture and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar 2005 - Purim ThePurim story is closely tied in with issues of political power, and the holiday is also known for Purimshpiels, the dramatics plays staged in may Jewish communities in conjuction with the holiday.And so, for this episode of Oy Mendele!, we focus on politics and drama.On this episode you'll hear:Abby Levine, Bay Area Regional Director ofProgressive Jewish Alliance. PJA just opened a local office in the Bay Area and Abby was kind of to tell us what they're up to and why.Amy Tobin, whose cab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abby Levine of Progressive Jewish Alliance Progressive Jewish Allianceis an organization working for social change. They've been active in the Los Angeles area for a few years, working on economic justice, criminal justice system reform, inter-ethnic dialogue, and other issues.PJA just opened a Bay Area branch, in Oakland. Abby Levine is the Regional Director of PJA and she explains here some of what PJA is doing and why, and tries to get you involved with PJA (whether you're Jewish or not). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Tobin of the Esther Show The Esther Show is a cabaret-rock-opera retelling of the Purim story, adult-style, without glossing over the seedy underbelly of the tale. Besides her skills as a singer, composer, and musician,Amy Tobinalso fits squarely within the tradition of people reading Torah anew in their own time.Amy has performed the show all over the US (or at least all over places within 10 miles of an ocean) and came by to talk about the show, Purim, and sing a song for us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annette Ezekiel of Golem Here's a interview with the singer/bandleader/accordionist of the klez-rock bandGolem, who have a new CD called Homesick Songs, along with a couple of tracks from same. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb 2005 - Charming Hostess, Leslie Krongold, Allen Ginsberg This one features:Charming HostessLeslie Krongold, director ofMy Rabbi, a documentary about woman rabbisPoetry Close-Up: Allen Ginsberg's KaddishCharming HostessandKaddishare also available as individually downloadable segments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charming Hostess (long version) Here'sCharming Hostess, talking about their new albumSarajevo Blues, which largely revolves around the poetry ofSemezdin Mehmedinović, who lived and wrote in Sarajevo while the city was under siege. They also manage to touch on issues of race, ethnicity, politics and culture, and display a bit of the love, respect, and chemistry that help make a them a very special musical outfit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish This poetry close-up takes a look at Ginsberg's reference to the Jewish mourning prayer in his search for a real way to mourn his mother Naomi. The reading itself if from the CDHoly Soul Jelly Roll. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Barsky of The Bright River Tim Barsky -- storyteller, battle flutist, and mastermind ofThe Bright River [a mass transit tour of the afterlife]-- came by to discuss the show and drop a sample or two on us.The Bright River continues it's run currently (March 2005) at the Metro in Oakland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music of the Klezmer Wedding Klezmer scholar/musician (and Amherst College professor) Craig Harwood stopped by and we recorded a little trip through the Eastern European Jewish wedding ceremony of days gone by. Tune in for some really rare klezmer sides from 1910's and'20s, some klezmer/hip-hop wedding music from MC Socalled, and information about the music and the wedding ceremony that you just plain can't hear anywhere else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chanukah 2004 - The Makkabees, Michael Lerner, Josh Kornbluth Let us drop a few Chanukah gifts on you, including, in order of appearance:RealMakkabees! No, not the ones who delivered a dose of semitic whoop-ass to the Seleucid Hellenists; these guys are from Los Angeles and rock the Hebrew Heavy Metal house party with all your liturgical and folk favorites!Rabbi Michael Lernersynpositizing the Chanukah storyMonologuistJosh Kornbluth! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sha'anan Street of Hadag Nachash הדג נחש were, for a brief, yet exciting, moment, all over the US press, or so it seemed. And why not -- their latest record,Local Productis an eminently listenable uptempo funky pop-rap record with real instruments,and bits of dancehall, klezmer and whatnot thrown in for good measure, and their collaboration with author David Grossman (The Yellow Wind, The Book of Intimate Grammar) stands as one of those rare clever ideas (the lyrics are a compendium of Israeli political bumper stick ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sexologist Isadora Alman As part of a special on dating, we spoke to Isadora Alman ofAsk Isadorafame, and asked her to help us straighten out some issues around sex, ethnicity and dating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basya Schechter of Pharaoh's Daughter Reise Tanner and Michelle Davis interviewedBasya SchechterofPharaoh's Daughter, who just dropped a new slab o'wax CD called Queen's Dominion, which, if you're aTorah nerdyeshiva student, refers to the dominion of King Achashvairosh as described at the beginning of Megillat Esther. Whatever.Basya Schechter's playing at the SF JCC at the end of October 2004. That new building is a travesty, but the show should be fun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rosh Hashanah with Yehudit and Reuven Goldfarb The Goldfarbs -- well known in the SF Bay Area as pillars of the Jewish Renewal community -- explain the significance and rituals of Rosh Hashanah, and blow a little shofar too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josh Neuman, Editor of Heeb Magazine Rebekah Kouy-Ghadosh interviewed Josh Neuman, the Editor ofHeeb, i.e.'The New Jew Review'.Heeb was pretty funny before Neuman showed up, but he's taking the magazine in some interesting new directions while keeping it entertaining; no small task. Check this out to hear a bit of his philosophy on identity, and get a sense of what it's like to run this very interesting magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Sieradski, aka Mobius of Jewschool Dan Sieradski, known online as Mobius, is one of a handful or truly fresh Jewish voices on the internet. Dan is the force behindJewschool,Orthodox Anarchist, and theOpen Source JudaismProject.I spoke with Dan in NYC's Washington Square Park, mostly about his Jooglebomb campaign and his plans for starting the Progressive Jewish Political Action Committee (PJPAC). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monica Haim, Director of Awake Zion This interview with Monica Haim, director ofAwake Zionwas recorded live in the studio on August 1st 2004.I've been into roots reggae music for a long time and have long pondered the spiritual, rhetorical, and symbolic connections between Rastafari culture and Judaism. And so, I was excited when I heard that someone (i.e. Monica Haim) went and made a documentary about that, and was very pleased to get the chance to host her in the studio while she was in town presenting Awake Zion at theSFJ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 2004 - Matisyahu, IDF refusenik Ofer Cohen That's not matzoh ballsHasidic reggae musicianMatisyahuin conversation with Eric Fixler about reggae music, becoming a chasid, and more. Featuring music from the upcoming record and some very special freestylin'.Israeli refusenik Ofer Cohen discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his own actions in response to it with Rebekah Kouy-Ghadosh and Michelle Davis.Plus news, the Fast of Tammuz, and that haymishe feeling... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 2004 - Biodiesel, The Passion of the Christ Wondering why we're covering Biodiesel on this show? Well, listen to SarahHope Smith describe what her Jewishness had to do with startingBioFuelOasis, a filling station for people whose cars can run on vegetable oil, IOW, diesel owners.The [in]famous movie The Passion of the Christ was also the subject of haymaking this month, and we spoke to some theatergoers who had just watched Mel Gibson's flick. This is still probably my favorite segment that we've produced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rabbi Yehuda Ferris on Tu B'Shvat Rabbi Yehuda Ferris ofBerkeley Chabadexplains Tu B'Shvat, the new year of the trees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12.2003 Chanukah - Mitchell Plitnick, Rabbi Michael Lerner Technically, this show is an Amandla, not an Oy Mendele, but was essentially the pilot for the latter.Features:Rabbi Michael Lerner of Beyt Tikkun (andTikkun Magazine) telling the story ofChanukahMitchell Plitnick ofJewish Voice for Peace, discussing his organization's efforts to further reconciliation in Israel/PalestineMusic from the Hebrew University Jewish Music Archive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda Hear the story of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, along with tracks from theFolkwaysCDAbayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website