{"id":8775,"date":"2009-04-23T06:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2009-04-23T06:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:28:27","slug":"rabbis-kids-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8775","title":{"rendered":"Rabbis Kids Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New Jersey Jewish News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The sound has the screaming urgency of punk rock. The lyrics question everything. A snippet of their first recording, heard on the blog of the hip Jewish music site JDub Records<\/a>, is appropriately titled “Why Why Why.”<\/p>\n

But the Brenner boys are not exactly alienated punk rockers<\/a>. Rather, Noam and Jonah Brenner are 10-year-old identical twins in the fifth grade at Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union.<\/p>\n

…Their father, Rabbi Daniel Brenner, was only slightly less casual in his baseball cap, button-down shirt, jeans, and Teva sandals. Their mom, Lisa Silberman Brenner, is a playwright and assistant professor of theater at Drew University. But only dad was around on this particular day, and he offered instruction to the boys on how to do an interview. He obviously has had some practice: Brenner, the executive director of Birthright Israel NEXT, was just that week named to Newsweek<\/em> magazine’s 2009 list of the country’s top 50 most influential rabbis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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