I did. It makes me cry.

for me, the fact that I don’t really know Hebrew kinda helps with that kind of music. it’s easy to forget that it is in fact the jewish version of the prom scene in “saved”, with equally brainwashed fundie fans.

KS–ya, count me in for enjoying Saved too, even though it did get all sappy and Mandy-Moorish at the end….

I love that film Saved it is very good!

Jerusalem Syndrome I LOVE the way you talk about describe the gig:

“…. look around at all the bouncing kippot and secular Israelis. When he moved later to a sway-and-hold-your-lighter-in-the-air metaly ballad thing and I realized that the refrain everyone was singing along to was “הסנה בער” (the bush was burning”), I began to get really creeped out. Torah can be and should be and is part of every aspect of one’s life, but by my accounts that can take a lot of forms, not just gettin’ jiggy with pasokim…..

……Of course, I’m a total hypocrite, because their version of “Shir HaMaalot” was really boppy and I totally had to hop into the middle of everything and start singing along”

LOVE IT!

Have you seen the movie “Saved”?

Pokes fun at the Christian version of some of this stuff…very funny in parts (predictable & contrived in others, but overall worth watching).