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have you seen/heard this new video? what do you think?
“an effort to raise both funds and awareness for two Israeli young men who are still being held in a Japanese prison almost three years after unknowingly bringing drugs into the country, Danny Finkleman, producer of the Unity project to benefit Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, has created another stunning music video, this one featuring two of the top names in Jewish music, superstars Shloime Daskal and Avraham Fried.”
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
couldnt find it on youtube
never mind…found it
Thanks for letting us know. Very well done.
edited. sorry, no outside links usually
wow!
you can find it on gruntig
Made me cry….
What’s the translation to the Yiddish part?
Why is the tsunami footage included? What does it have to do with the rest of the video?
The only problem is that it opens up with that guitarist rocking it up. Otherwise it’s incredible! How were they able to fit in the tzunami so quickly?!? It was like last week or something!!!
because maybe they are getting punished for their cruelty
to mamashtakah: its showing the strength of hashem and how he can change anything from one minute to the next.
I find this extremely offensive. What a disgusting notion, that a bunch of frum people got together to make a song and share it with the public, broadcasting their belief that they know why the Japanese tsunami happened. I’m not sure what is more offensive- the arrogance of the “Neviim” who claim to understand Hashem’s intentions, or the shamelessness of the action of sharing their agenda so publicly. Certainly neither “Avremele” nor Finkelman have the right to represent frum Jews by publishing this statement.
who does the money go to?
is doesnt say that they are affiliated with the fund that helps them.
The music is beautiful. it was beautiful when Country Yossie (I think)recorded the song, “In a Vinkeleh Shteit.” The lyrics are different of course, but this is an old tune.
veteran- whenever there’s a beautiful video showing the incredible achdus of klal yisroel and the love of every single jew to the other- there’s always gotta be at least one guy to bad mouth it and dig up something, why did it have to be you?
So you feel its a bit wrong- ok, just concentrate on the beauty of what lengths yidden go to help others.
To be sure I would donate to the fund that helps them not to the song
always here~ Haha, that was a funny one! 🙂
Here’s the thing, I actually wrote the question asking for the lyrics while I was in the middle of watching the clip (I paused the video to ask…) and then, when I saw that there WAS English in the song, I quickly (tried to) delete my comment by clicking ‘edit’ which didn’t allow to delete, but I could make it blank; because I thought that the English was a translation of the Yiddish. (And because I thought that the Mods delete blank posts- I guess not…) Then when I went back to check the lyrics again, from the small amount that I understood, I realised that it wasn’t the same, so I re-posted my question 🙂
Btw, I watched the clip from “The Japan Song” site as well, but the ‘lyrics’ tab had no translation. Must be a program on your computer…
Either way, I typed it into google translate, although that wasn’t such accurate translation (made little sense)
So, anyone who knows the translation, I’d appreciate it! Thanks! 🙂
honholulu~ I agree!
noitallmr- I respectfully disagree. If the entire video was focused on the achdus and the lengths we go to help each other then you’d be right. But then they had to go and stick in a message like that… if it was not intended that way then they should come out and say so publicly.
Veteran, although I have not seen the video, I have a relative who was bitterly complaining about it. He said it makes the Japanese seem like they were doing something wrong by arresting people who were smuggling drugs. In addition, the boys’ excuse was that they thought they were smuggling antiques. (They knew they were doing something illegal.) My relative also asks, shouldn’t these boys have wondered why they were being paid a high amount, and 3 plane tickets were bought, when the guy could just as well have shipped his goods Fedex, if there was nothing illegal?
I personally feel that we should try to help these boys, because a single mistake should not ruin their lives. However, to make it seem like they were innocent, and the Japanese are the guilty one’s is reprehensible.
I assume technically they are culpable under Japanese law even though the bochorim are themselves innocent victims who unknowingly carried something they weren’t aware of. But the fact they are in reality innocent victims who are being persecuted and prosecuted, ought to tell us to what lengths we must go to free these brothers of ours.
Pashuteh Yid — I have not seen the video and have no opinion of it. I agree that it is not right when people make it sound like the Japanese government has done something terribly wrong here — after all, drugs were being smuggled in, and they have strict drug laws. It seems clear that whatever mistakes the Japanese did seem to make (i.e. not allowing them to contact the person they were supposed to deliver to, which would have possibly led to the arrest of the real criminals) were only mistakes by the individual agents involved. Overall everything I’ve read from askanim involved seem to say that the Japanese government was behaving in an unusually flexible way according to their usual standards.
HOWEVER, I’d like to address your accusation which I keep seeing and I believe are not accurate. The boys’ defense is not that they were “smuggling” antiques. They were told they were importing delicate religious antiques, which were LEGAL and not subject to tax. They were told that the hidden bottoms, not shipping it, etc. was due to concern over theft and damage to the items. The basis of their defense pretty much is that these boys were sheltered and naive enough to believe this. The current appeal is focusing on the question of the lie detector test that the boys passed which is supposed to show that they did not have even a vague knowledge of their crime. (BTW Japan uses the most sophisticated of the 3 methods of questioning for polygraphs, and their style is considered extremely accurate.)
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