Is Music Kosher? (Part 4): Rocking Chassidim: The Remarkable Success of Orthodox Pop Music
Observing the state of Orthodox Jewish music in 1975, a critic wrote in Agudath Israel’s magazine, The Jewish Observer, that “Peter, Paul, and Mary went to the mikva and came out rabbis’ sons.” Yet, despite some limited opposition to the non-Jewishness of
the sound, Orthodox pop music keeps growing. As we will see, contemporary musicians are more willing than ever to push the boundaries of what frum music can be.
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Yosef Lindell
Yosef Lindell is a lawyer, writer, and lecturer living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two sons. He has an MA in Jewish history from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School and a JD from NYU School of Law. For four years, he was an editor of the Lehrhaus, an online forum for Jewish thought, and now serves on its consulting editorial board.Yosef’s writing spans several genres, including science fiction, but he primarily focuses on Jewish history and…