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05/11/10 04:28 PM

I was literally moved to tears. “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

05/11/10 06:31 PM

Beautiful.

Alas, one major flaw - no women were invited to sing solos. I think I know the reason why but I hope I’m wrong. In any case, women should have been included.

05/11/10 07:53 PM

Very nice. Good sentiment, but no line “I’m a little gavri/I’m a little nikeivi.” Pity Noa and Yael Naim weren’t invited to participate.

05/11/10 09:52 PM

Simple and moving. It arrives at a most perfect time. We all need to stand up and sing it aloud. It expresses our essence: Ani Yehudi. The differences, the qualifiers, rich, poor, sephardi, ashkenazi, men, women, soldier, student, farmer, etc., etc. are in the context of the Jewish essence a weakening distraction.

Can I please get the music and lyrics? Thanks.

Ani Yehudi!

Leon Chattah

05/12/10 05:15 AM

I agree with Eliezer that it is too bad that women could not sing solos, but, otherwise, I LOVE IT!!!!

05/17/10 01:25 AM

I am pretty sure I heard it a few months ago with “Ani Masorti” as one of the defiitions.  It seems as if that was edited out.  I wonder by whom.

06/10/10 05:52 PM

@Susan:
Interesting comment, especially considering that the original song (by Lenny Solomon—see http://wejew.com/media/2392/Lenny_Solomon_Unity_Ani_Yehudi/ ) explicitly makes the point that we’re _not_ this label or that label....