The Avraham Rosenblum & Diaspora Yeshiva Band Story

[@yehuditchannen5447]

Legends!

[@iceliadias]

That's most amazing. B'H.

[@Judys_Jewish_Music]

You Gotta Know How Much This FAN Enjoyed & Appreciated your sharing All!! I’ve watched this several times already!! Thank You Rockin’ Rabbi!! Yasher Koach!!!! 12 Years in Israel & Yeshiva??

[@avrahamrosenblum6656]

More. 1971-1983 at the yeshiva. Boston Kollel and my Rockin' Rabbi Show through 1988.

[@Judys_Jewish_Music]

Avraham Rosenblum WOW❣️ I’ve never known anyone in Yeshiva that long!!!!! & I’ve not yet seen clips of your Rockin Rabbi Show.🤔🤔🤔

[@robertzimberg]

😇 Reb Avraham Rosenblum taught me that one need not be crazy-extreme or secluded from the world to be a genuine, devoted, religious, Joyful Jew.

[@Judys_Jewish_Music]

That was a real cool dance move on the stage!!

[@Shalomalechm]

Shalom from Guadalajara Mexico, i just found out about the band Thanx to Eitan Katz and Yosef Karduner Channukah. I lived in the Yeshiva in 2017 Thanx to Yosef Goldstein. Baruch Hashem Yehovah today Land of our fathers 39 years old! Mazal tov!

[@YK-lj6tu]

Boker tov! How can I buy any digital recording of ”the wedding song “ found on side B the Diaspora Yeshiva Band first album? Thanks and shavua tov!

[@spaceling]

Did the Diaspora Yeshiva Band tour the US? One of my earliest memories was a Jewish rock concert in Cincinnati hearing a song about crying Torah scrolls in a synagogue which no one made a minyan for to read them anymore. That was you guys, right?

[@avrahamrosenblum6656]

No. We did however perform in Cincinnati. The tune you described sounds like it might be a Dvekus tune. We were rockers.

[@spaceling]

@@avrahamrosenblum6656 Oh wow, what year did you come by Cincinnati?

[@avrahamrosenblum6656]

@@spaceling It was January 1980, when the Israel-Egypt peace treaty became official. We performed at Rabbi Goldfeder’s ZL shul.

[@spaceling]

@@avrahamrosenblum6656 I think there were a couple shows, different bands, and they blur in my memory. (I wasn't yet five years old.) Adath Israel is exactly where I remember the concert -- and this was really my first experience of a rock show or any live music show outside of the symphony hall. Tremendous and important for me. Later, in college, I found a copy of Melave Malke in our Jewish Student Union (SUNY Binghamton) and was really taken by Atah Atah and Yesh Elokim Bashamayim. That entire side b still affects me. I'd love to hear any memories you can share of how that album came together. (Atah Atah later inspired me to find R' Levi Yitsḥaq's Dudele: opensiddur.org/?p=31809 )

[@yehudahecht1520]

The song you're thinking of is either called The Dollar Bill, by Megama (Moshe Yess) or The Place Where I Belong, by D'veykus (Abie Rotenberg).

[@r.markowitz6069]

Hi R. Avrohom Any connections between you and Reb Shlomo Carlebach? Especially on your journey back to yidishkeit?

[@avrahamrosenblum6656]

The first time I encountered Reb Shlomo ZL I was already learning at Diaspora Yeshiva . One afternoon he came to our Beis Midrash to visit some of his talmidim whom he had sent to Yerushalayim to learn Gemara. - Ben Zion Solomon was one of them. Next thing I knew Shlomo and our Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein ZL were dancing on a table! That was my introduction to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach - The Singing and Dancing Rabbi.