{"id":7945,"date":"2009-01-18T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2009-01-18T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:19:15","slug":"sundance-shabbat-with-matisyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7945","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Shabbat With Matisyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/hollywoodjew\/item\/day_three_at_sundance_prickly_jews_and_shabbat_with_matisyahu_20090117\/\">Larry Mark writes for the Jewish Journal:<\/a> I also stopped by the &ldquo;Shabbat at Sundance&rdquo; dinner that drew more than 100 participants.&nbsp; When the time came to say the Birkat Hamazon, a dozen attendees remained and I sat next to a tall, thin, bearded man from Brooklyn, and poured him some Kedem grape juice.&nbsp; &ldquo;What do you do in Brooklyn&mdash;learn?&rdquo; I asked the stranger.&nbsp; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m in music,&rdquo; he replied.&nbsp; It was not until 20 minutes later &ndash; when another participant gushed over the man&rsquo;s latest CD &ndash; that I realized the &ldquo;stranger&rdquo; was the Jewish reggae star, Matisyahu. He was at the dinner with his wife, Tali, a graduate of New York University&rsquo;s film school, who met her husband while doing a documentary on men and women in the Orthodox community not touching. Tali apparently is at Sundance to make contacts to continue this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Mark writes for the Jewish Journal: I also stopped by the &ldquo;Shabbat at Sundance&rdquo; dinner that drew more than 100 participants.&nbsp; When the time came to say the Birkat Hamazon, a dozen attendees remained and I sat next to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,3764],"tags":[15572,15570,1133,30680,15571,15573],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish-journal","category-matisyahu","tag-birkat-hamazon","tag-dozen-attendees","tag-kedem-grape-juice","tag-matisyahu","tag-new-york-university","tag-reggae-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}