“But the controversy only enhanced his popularity. In the months after the ban, he released an album, “A Poshiter Yid” (A Simple Jew), with a title song that could serve as a Yiddish version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” The chorus concludes, “I am still not a Tzadik (a righteous one), still I don’t […]
“Litvishe Roshei Yeshiva in America Refuse to Sign Ban Against Concerts”
Breaking! Fanatics Attempt End Run Around Gedolim; Publish New Lipa Ban(Text) From the DM investigative news desk… Asher Friedman who runs the charity Nechomas Yisroel and Yitzchak Stern from Williamsburg, having failed to convince the rabbonim to ban this year’s Lipa Schmeltzer concert, “The Event […]
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“It seems that Lipa Schmeltzer is forming close connections to Lubavitch. The Event’s producer R’ Shea Mendlowitz related that many Lubavitcher niggunim are being prepared for the concert, with brand new, never before heard arrangements, because of Lipa’s warm connection to these niggunim. Mendlowitz emphasizes that the Lubavitcher niggunim weren’t chosen because of the large number of […]
“They are leading the public astray and are causing a great negative influence on the young generation,” says Rabbi Efraim Luft, head of an ultra-orthodox organisation in Israel called the Committee for Jewish Music.Supported by leading Haredi rabbis, Rabbi Luft has drawn up a black-list of musicians and bands - music that he says that […]
Photo:Controversial vocalist Lipa Schmeltzer canceled a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden following a meeting with Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
Musicians who use rock, rap, reggae and trance influences will not receive rabbinic approval for their CDs, nor will they be allowed to play in wedding halls under haredi kosher food supervision, according to a […]
On June 22, Hasidic singing sensation Lipa Schmeltzer stepped out to greet his fans in one of his first large-scale appearances since a firestorm erupted over the cancellation of his concert, “The Big Event.”Making appearances at three stores in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn just one week after the release of his newest CD, […]
During a unique and impressive event, ‘Borsalino Italian Hats’ inaugurated its new branch in Yerushalayim. Rav HaKotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and singer Lipa Shmeltzer were honored with the fixing of the mezuzot. Rabbi Rabinowitz congratulated Mendy Bostomsky who has 13 years experience in the business and Roi Goren.At the completion of the ceremony it was […]
Today’s Hamodia has five opinion pieces on the Lipa ban controversy.
The editors write:
In the aftermath of the events surrounding the “Big Event” concert ban, Hamodia was deluged by reactions from readers that demonstrated the wide range of their views and the passion they had towards their views. The volume of this response was unusally high […]
“On the Talkline With Zev Brenner radio program, Schmeltzer took a different view. Noting that the text of the ban closely mirrored that of an earlier Israeli ban of an Avraham Fried and Yaakov Shwekey Jerusalem concert in August 2007, Schmeltzer said it was only a matter of time before the ban came to America. […]
“When Mr. Mendlowitz canceled the show, he insisted that advertisers, Madison Square Garden and the more than 3,000 ticket holders — who paid between $50 and $500 — would be reimbursed. He added that Mr. Friedman had offered to help offset the losses — but only if Mr. Mendlowitz agreed to retire from the Hasidic […]
“Cancellation of “Big Event” becomes a big event” Jpost
“I was supposed to make more money from this than from any show I ever made in my life,” Shmeltzer told the Hamodia. But “When 33abbanim from different kehillos sign something, it means that Hashem is telling me, ‘Lipa stop this concert; I don’t want this concert.” […]
