Suggested by my Facebook friend Stephanie Reifkind Kahn the wife of Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn.
YouTube notes:
Published on Oct 9, 2013
Taken from the israeli TV show “Rising Star”.
Aryeh and Gil Gat are two brothers from Jerusalem.
In this video they’re singing “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkel.
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5 responses to “The Singing Rabbis – Sounds of Silence”
Great rendition of what for me was a haunting song.I’m glad the did it in the style of S&G.
Had me going straight to the YouTube of the Central Park concert.
Very near perfect. BEST cover of it I’ve ever heard, but my reaction was rather like Captain Ned’s – though I went to my very old record player and LP instead.
Captain, Kathy,
I did the same. YouTube – all my LPs are gone.
The one that hit home for me was My Little Town which was a little later. It was every gay man’s anthem who grew up in small town America. For me the factory was The Diamond Match Company, the filthy air was soot that seeped into every room during almond smudge season, and the dead and dying were the blue haired old biddies and Masonic Lodge old farts who sent us off to fight a losing war and didn’t give a shit. All dead now, and good riddance to the lot.
S & G captured the anger in this classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jg8jf9oTjw