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Matisyahu and race: Is it okay for white Jew to sing reggae?
Chicago Jewish News ^ | 3-30-06 | Liel Leibovitz

Posted on 03/30/2006 6:09:47 PM PST by SJackson

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To: Scribbz

I like that article...for the links to the music.


61 posted on 03/31/2006 12:39:11 PM PST by dervish
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To: freebilly

http://www.hope.edu/bandstra/BIBLE/PSA/PSA137.HTM


62 posted on 03/31/2006 12:41:31 PM PST by dervish
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To: SJackson

Here is something that was sent to me via email from the Hasidic group that runs the AttacReport.com website:




Subversion Alert

This week:
Matisyahu (Matthew Miller), Brooklyn (?), NY

We've decided to take one more diversion before returning to our exposure of the phony, Moscow-controlled "Sanhedrin." This week's profile is inspired by the article we did last week on subversion of art, including music.

Tragically, there are a number of orthodox Jewish youth who have been losing part or all of their religious upbringing in recent years, many of them trying to break into fashionable areas of the music industry. Lured by the temptation of illusory "fame" and "success," such people are drawn into some of the worst, most destructive types of "music," including punk, rap, and Reggae.

Ordinarily, we would presume this is what happened with the new rock star Matisyahu, a Lubavitcher in his mid-twenties who grew up non-religious but apparently got involved with Judaism a few years ago. He is now performing to mass audiences throughout the United States and has released a few albums, all featuring his songs that fuse rap and Reggae (or so the news reports and other descriptions say), ableit with "religious"-sounding lyrics (and while dressed like a Hasid). But in Matisyahu's case, it is virtually a certainty that he is not naive or misguided at all, but rather is one of several subversive influences who have recently been infiltrating the orthodox, Hasidic Jewish world to promote the Communist agenda in music. Three main lines of evidence point in this direction:

1) Matisyahu started his career a few years ago by studying music at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, New York. Now known simply as the "New School," it is no ordinary institution; since its founding in 1919 as a haven for Socialist and Communist revolutionaries, it has remained an overtly Marxist center for indoctrinating and recruiting college students. Various faculty members have been known to be affiliated with Communist Parties or Communist-front organizations, and its curriculum remains thoroughly drenched with Marxist radicalism to this very day. The inherent evil of Communism (being that of the forces of Amalek) is so strong that no one who is ever involved with it can smoothly walk away untainted; once a person has been in its grip, he must fight it with a passionate anti-Communism for the rest of his life, or else he stands no chance of breaking away. The Torah commands us actively to arouse hatred for Amalek, and with good reason: No one can escape the clutches of Amaleki evil without turning and destroying it, or at least arousing an intense, powerful hatred of it. But Matisyahu has not done so, nor does he even participate in any public, anti-Communist activism of any kind, so far as we know.

2) Matisyahu's career has received the kind of boost that a naive, misguided musician cannot get today; his albums are produced by Sony Records, one of the world's largest labels. Communist infiltration and subversion throughout the music industry can be documented, at least circumstantially, dating back decades. It was this influence that promoted Communist folk singer Pete Seeger, the Beatles (who promoted drugs and Marxist revolution, and who brought that subversive influence into their music as well as the lyrics), and innumerable other hard-left or immoral "musicians." The music industry today almost uniformly promotes cultural degradation and subversion (sometimes in loosely "religious" disguise), and essentially never allows any positive musical influences to surface. Yet Matisyahu, having been trained at the Communist-controlled New School, was immediately picked up and heavily promoted by a major music label!

3) He is also promoted by known Communist agents. One clear example is the web site of Aaron Frimer, an infiltrator with Marxist and Communist connections whom we have exposed previously, where Frimer enthusiastically pushes Lubavitch youth to buy and listen to Matisyahu's albums. If Matisyahu were genuine, other subversive agents would treat him with the same disdain and hatred they reserve for JAHG-USA and our work to defund the PLO and to teach the Noahide Laws. Yet instead they adore Matisyahu.

Rather than bringing any worthwhile message to the larger world, Matisyahu is accomplishing the cultural subversion of the Hasidic and orthodox worlds, and is setting an abhorrently wicked example for non-Jews as well, giving them a totally false impression of what Judaism and the Torah represent. He is adapting the sounds of rap (which is inherently violent, revolutionary "music" always used to promote gangs and hatred) and Reggae, which is bound up with drug-using culture and, at least in the case of Reggae singer Bob Marley, with Marxist revolution as well. These forms of "music" intrinsically lack any positive value, and fall clearly into the types of music forbidden by Torah.

(Note: The underground Communist apparatus and its aboveground tentacles are actively engaged in subversion in all sectors and institutions of society today. Its agents would dearly love to know the full extent of our information, which would assist their disinformation efforts. Consequently, we do not divulge all our facts or sources. These profiles are intended only as a warning to the wise to monitor the individuals and groups exposed here, and to avoid their influence.)



63 posted on 04/05/2006 1:39:08 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: adam_az
Mad Professor is a little too far out there for me. I prefer Scientist. Still thought I was the only Freeper in AZ who even knew who Mad Professor is. I'm glad to know I'm not alone.

As for Matisyahu I can only think that these liberal music critics are trying to find ways to criticism him without saying the real reason they don't like him, namely they don't like what he stands for. After all he has an entire song about how the Temple in Jerusalem must be rebuilt. I can't imagine that goes over too well with the loony left.

It's part of one of the things that POs me most about the left. Namely that they think they have a monopoly on artistic endeavors. Having taken many art classes in college, I found that the loony left thinks Conservative all regard Thomas Kincaid is high art. Any art that is perceived to have conservative or libertarian themes is immediately condemned as masculine/white/heterosexual oppressive instruments. It's truly sickening.
64 posted on 04/11/2006 12:16:38 AM PDT by Stag_Man (Mmmmmmmm.... Steeeeeeaaaaak...)
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To: Stag_Man

"Having taken many art classes in college, I found that the loony left thinks Conservative all regard Thomas Kincaid is high art. Any art that is perceived to have conservative or libertarian themes is immediately condemned as masculine/white/heterosexual oppressive instruments. It's truly sickening."

I went to art school - I hated it so much that I flunked out.

As far as Reggae goes, dont remember if I mentioned it, my favorite is probably the roughneck ragga dancehall style stuff, where they're toasting at about a thousand miles an hour.


65 posted on 04/11/2006 6:52:22 AM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: Blue Highway

ping Matisyahu


66 posted on 08/23/2006 7:32:11 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses)
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