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 Thanks to everyone who has viewed my videos! I've enjoyed making them and have some new videos in the works. To be informed when I release a new video, just send a request to the e-mail address below. Or check out my video collection on the page at Revver.com where I post them. The point of these videos is to have fun, to appreciate Jewish holidays and traditions, and to raise funds for my shul. (That's why I put my videos on Revver.com now, instead of pays-you-nothing YouTube.)
| NEW: The Purim videos For Purim I pulled out all the stops and prepared a set of four videos with some of the funniest images I have ever put in my videos. The videos tell the megillah story with settings ranging from ancient Persia to the White House to the planet Naboo (Star Wars), all within the musical wrapping of the theme from "The Beverly Hillbillies." View the videos in order here:  Celebrate the beauty of the Hanukkah season and enjoy the reggae beat. Here's a celebration of the harvest festival of Sukkot, complete with hip-shaking music. Elvis had more of a Jewish connection than just Aaron for a middle name.  This video is a humorous and hard-rocking look at the very extended family that is descended from Aaron the Priest, brother of Moses. Comedians, physicists, models, lawyers, some with disguised names, they're here aplenty, plus some people you might think are kohanim but aren't. Be sure to alert all your kohanim friends to this tribute to their tribe. By the way, I know that not all kohanim have a name that sounds like "Cohen," but there's no good listing of famous people who are kohanim.
My most successful video so far is "Manischewitzville."
 Some people are wondering about the line "Pour the beer down the drain." It actually makes more sense to give away your beer or put it with your sequestered chametz that you sell. When I wrote that line and first performed it as a song, I didn't mean it literally. But when I assembled photos for the video I found a surprising number of shots showing people actually pouring out beer (why, I can't imagine)!  I'll leave it to you to decide whether you identify more with the guy's kvetching or with the divine voice reminding us of what we should be doing on Yom Kippur. | Maybe you're wondering how a Jewish guy got a name like Billy Ray Sheet. This is not my real name! It's a pun on the phrase "b'lee reysheet" ("without beginning") that appears in Adon Olam, the hymn that ends every Shabbat and holiday service. Write to me at this e-mail address: |
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