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A mix of classic and contemporary.

How do you like to sing Lecha Dodi?

Connected through the universal medium of music

“Let’s make Kiddush over the whole world”

“If I collaborate for other albums, why not mine?”

“A place called prison,” as Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin referred to Otisville Federal Correctional Institution, is an unusual setting for uplifting music. It was some years ago that Yaakov Shwekey first went to visit, in the early days of Reb Sholom Mordechai’s eight-year incarceration. Overcome by emotions at seeing Reb Sholom Mordechai behind bars, Yaakov