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Mordechai Shapiro was born on December 9, 1989 in Monsey, New York.His father was a chazzan and his mother had a background as a trained opera singer. Growing up in a Modern Orthodox household, he attended The Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland for grade school, and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy for high school.
Zalman Mordecai Shapiro (12 May 1920 – 16 July 2016) was an American chemist and inventor. He received 15 patents , including a 2009 patent on a process to make commercial production of diamonds cheaper, [ 1 ] and played a key role in the development of the reactor that powered the world's first nuclear powered submarine , the Nautilus .
Although raised in a Pupa Hasidic family, in later life Weber moved away from Pupa and now identifies with the Breslov Hasidic movement. [1] As a Breslover he travels to Uman, Ukraine, on Rosh Hashanah and leads the prayer service for several thousand worshippers. [2] [11] [12] He is also a student of Rabbi Yitzchok "Itche" Meyer Morgenstern. [2]
The family of Shapiro’s pen-pal in that campaign, a boy named Avi, was able to come to America in time to attend Shapiro’s bar mitzvah before being granted asylum in Israel.
His music is mostly categorized as pop Jewish music, [7] similar to Mordechai Ben David and tends to integrate many styles of popular music, including pop, rock and jazz, with Jewish lyrics and themes. [citation needed] He also has a few "cantor" style songs on most of his albums, as well as many songs written in Yiddish. [citation needed]
Lucy Nicholson-Pool/Getty Images In 2004, music producer Phil Spector hired her to represent him. Spector was charged with the February 3, 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Steinmetz was born in 1992 to a Vizhnitz family in Bnei Brak. Motty is the son of Rabbi Moshe and Rebecca Steinmetz, and the fourth of nine children. He is of Ashkenazi descent. When Steinmetz was fourteen, his grandfather moved from Antwerp, Belgium, to Israel and taught him many traditional Vizhnitz tunes which influenced his musical style. [1]