Author: Elad Nehorai

  • New York City And Israel: The Holy Connection

    New York City And Israel: The Holy Connection

    I never really got New York. It always seemed to be so fast, and so crazy and everyone seemed just a little full of themselves. Who in their right mind would want to live here, my Midwestern mind would wonder. I’d have a heart attack.

  • The (Jewish) Problem With Social Media

    The (Jewish) Problem With Social Media

    Social media, in so many ways, is an amazing thing. For all the dung that gets thrown at it, its powers are almost unrivaled compared to any other tool on the internet. We’re talking about a beast that helped topple multiple governments. That makes people famous overnight. That gives people who never had a voice…

  • On Not Writing

    On Not Writing

    Do you have any idea what that’s like, I want to ask. To know you’ve hurt others with your own words. You’ve torn the world down. You’ve hurt people. If the pen is mightier than the sword then writers are killers.

  • Jewish Artist of the Week: Yerachmiel Goldstein

    Jewish Artist of the Week: Yerachmiel Goldstein

    The best part about Yerachmiel’s music is that while trying to make it holy, he does not try to fit into any sort of musical box. His music is creative, free and lively.

  • Jewish Artist of the Week: Yitzchok Moully

    Jewish Artist of the Week: Yitzchok Moully

    What better way to introduce the Pop Chassid Jewish Artist of the Week than Yitzchok Moully: the “Chassidic Pop Artist”?

  • Take Off Your Costume

    Take Off Your Costume

    She wasn’t perfect, beautiful and pure like Snow White. And that made her fly into a rage. The poor queen. If only she knew. If only she understood.

  • Free The Jewish Artist!

    Free The Jewish Artist!

    Is it possible to be creative and still be a Jew? Can I, a person filled with this passion in my heart – a passion that is alive, breathing, on fire – translate that passion into a piece of art without compromising my principles?

  • Aladdin: Beyond the Lamp

    Aladdin: Beyond the Lamp

    Being Aladdin means going beyond. Seeing beyond.

  • Listen

    Listen

    Through our whole lives, we walk like zombies, ignoring the sound that rages inside of us. We think we are cut off from the vibrations of the universe, the world beyond and within. We think we are humans of flesh and blood. We live in a world of how and no why, a world where…

  • The Second Sentence

    The Second Sentence

    To write the first sentence means to be a mensch. It means you’ve let go of the ropes binding you and you’ve jumped forward into a whole new world. But what about the other sentences?