Hi Everybody!! The first show of 2016 is up on the website for your enjoyment!! A great regular edition of the program with our unique blend of the finest in vintage and modern Jewish music, culled from our family archive of over 110 years of great recordings. Ben and I thank you all so very much for all your support and we look forward to bringing you another year of great programs. Don’t forget to continue to be our ambassadors and to spread the good word about Washington Jewish Radio by forwarding the website to everyone you can!! Here is the line-up for this week’s program and Ben and I hope you enjoy it!!

PROGRAM OF SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2016

Tovim M’oros-Bobover Choir-1981

Rachem B’Chasdecho-Moti Zingboim-1982

Keren Shemesh, Keren Zohar-Edna Lev-1972

El Judio Rumbero-Carlos Varela and his Havana orchestra-1938

Mein Meydeleh, Mein-Max Perlman-1960

Al Tiroh-Kiss Brothers-1975

Get Back (spoof of the Beatles hit of the same name)-Guns and Charoses-1994

Headaches (spoof of the Ted Weems hit “Heartaches”)-Allan Sherman-1963

Romemu-Cantor Craig Taubman-1989

Hoshea Es Amecho-Rashi and the Rishonim-1971

Der Gas’n Poiker (The Street Drummer)-Dudu Fisher-1983

V’Shavtem Mayim-Dov Hoffman-1993

On the Cantorial Feature two very nice selections by Cantor Paul Kowarsky. Born in 1951 in South Africa, he served congregations there as well in Israel and Great Britain. He came to the United States in 1976 to assume a position in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1980 he moved to Canada and held posts in Montreal and later in Toronto. He also became a judge in the Canadian court system. The two selections heard on the program are from an album he recorded during his tenure in Cincinnati in 1978:

1. Ad Heino

2. Rabi Chananyah Ben Akashia Omer

BEN’S SELECTIONS ON THE PROGRAM:

Auld Lang Syne-Kenny G.

Mi Ma’akim-Idan Rachel Project

Pretty Fly For A Rabbi (spoof of “Pretty Fly For A White Guy” by the Offspring)-Weird Al Yankovic

When You Believe-Maccabeats

Chiribim, Chiribom-Oyf Simchas

Shir L’Maalot-Moshe Peretz

Well, that’s the line-up and Ben and I hope you enjoy it.  Next week we will have another great program for your enjoyment. Until then, have a great week and thanks for listening!!