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Not-isyahu: Lubavitch rockers Chunah Silverman and Menachem Shapiro are bringing biblical rhymes to the mainstream. Say hello to the other white Jewish Hasidic reggae rappers.
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American Jewish Life Magazine
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March 1, 2007
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- Roth, Matthue
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Before I met Chunah Silverman of Ta-Shma, I'd heard of him. Not the same way people are hearing him now, at concerts or on the radio, but as a Crown Heights urban legend.
The population of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is largely divided between Jamaican immigrants and members of the Lubavitch sect of Hasidic Judaism. Usually, except for a scuffle every few years, there's barely any interaction between the two communities.
Then Silverman came along.
The stories started out as whispers among yeshiva boys then spread to synagogue gossip. There was a Lubavitch guy, six foot seven if he was an inch, who would walk up to groups of African American kids on the street and ...
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