WIKIPEDIA: According to the Bible, Galilee was named by the Israelites and was the tribal region of Naphthali and Dan, at times overlapping the Tribe of Asher's land.

Bnei Bilhah are of an ancient origin. In the Hebrew migratory tradition begun more than two millennia ago, an Israeli remnant migrated into Africa with many Danites from Northeast Africa migrating back to their tribal allocations in Israel, such as Tel Aviv, besides emerging Naphtalite communities throughout Mainland Africa, including Levitical Islanders from Haiti, Jamaica, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, as well as a Mixed Multitude comprising the African Diaspora from the United States of America settling Southwest of the Sea of Galilee.

ልጥፎችን በመለያ Can Can በማሳየት ላይ። ሁሉንም ልጥፎች አሳይ
ልጥፎችን በመለያ Can Can በማሳየት ላይ። ሁሉንም ልጥፎች አሳይ

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El Passover

የተቀመጠው בְּשֵם יְהוָֹה וְיֵשׁוּעַ וְרוחַ מִרְיָם ላይ 8:20:00 ከሰዓት
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Honorable Menschin'

Props to Correspondent, Farrah Fidler for the Honorable Mention in the illest Heeb Hop collective based outside of Israel, namely Shemspeed, whose roster of artists and events are first-rate.

Oh the joys of social media. Whenever I see something that came out years ago, I always wonder why didn’t I see that? But I’m still really happy that Filipino-Jewish poet Eliyahu Enriquez posted this video on his blog. The video is a clip from the full-length documentary Naf - A Street Kid, which can be found here.

Also, Matthue Roth expresses his flattery for the poem dedication in the same blog breath as Patrick A. aka Punk Torah of the band Can Can:

And, also under the heading of people whose company I am humbled to be in: Eliyahu Enriquez, whose poetry continues to slay me every time he gets on a stage, shouts me out in a new poem

I've all ready included "Ontological Anarchy" in the final draft of Mad Kamp (I'm waiting until the very last minute to complete my latest deadline and submit it to The Publisher). Here's the text and accompanying spec:


Ontological Anarchy

For Matthue Roth and Naftali Yawitz

When Elijah prayed
You sent fire
And charged him
To care
For a widow and orphan.

What I got was asylum.
I got angry,
Despised my roots,
So I became orphaned.

In every generation
Since the Temple's destruction
Prophets go unemployed.
We just don't get —
What we deserve.

On behalf of Rain
(My perpetual pup)
I will cease

To believe in Weathermen.

Farrah happens to also be one of the featured Performance Poets in Taglit Birthright-Monologues. Here's a video I captured of her spoken word skillz, in promotion of the touring memoirs from Israel:

In Search of Sabras



Sources:

Shemspeed Official Website
Shemspeed on MySpace
Shemspeed on YouTube

Notes:


Vote for Matthue's poem (registration required)!
Check out Benyamin Brody's latest single, Bar Yochai on MySpace!

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Update [5/2/09]:

I've been in a season of honoring invitations, so I attended Matthue's show @ the Bronfman Center. Shemspeed Artist, Y-Love was in the Hillel House, undoubtedly stoked for the coming week, tweeting the gig (he and his escort's boots were quite intimidating and trend-setting, in a subversively innovative way).

Matthue's set, in front of a largely NYU audience - who took a time out from preparing for Finals to support him - was noticably charged, best described as Trench Mouth, based on my sphere of the contentious universe recently.

Itta graciously accepted 100 shekalim for Matthue's Yom Kippur a go-go. The accompanying autograph by Matthue was doubly astonishing, like Elisha's supernatural exploits: "To Eliyahu - who makes Judaism alive and G✡d electric." Shavua tov, firebrands.
የተቀመጠው בְּשֵם יְהוָֹה וְיֵשׁוּעַ וְרוחַ מִרְיָם ላይ 7:52:00 ከሰዓት
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