MUSICAL SHABBAT in Memory of Reb Shlomo Carlebach and Daniel Pearl

MUSICAL SHABBAT in Memory of REB SHLOMO CARLEBACH 

during Daniel Pearl World Music Days 
Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA 
Erev Shabbat, October 22, 2010 

 Senior Rabbi Ed Feinstein and Cantor Herschel Fox invite community to Valley Beth Shalom, Erev Shabbat, October 22, 2010 for their 6th annual musical tribute with the soulful Chassidic Orchestra. The Kabbalat Shabbat and musical Chassidic Farbrengen at 8 P.M., are offered to community in memory of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, z'l, on his 16th yahrzeit / death anniversary (16 Cheshvan), and in memory of Daniel Pearl, z'l, as part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days. 
For more information, visit  www.vbs.org or call (818) 788-6000. No charge. Free Parking. 
Valley Beth Shalom is located at 15739 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436 (on the north east corner at Densmore).

Renowned Chassidic Orchestra MUSICIANS include: Cantor Herschel Fox - soloist, David Kamenir, conductor and pianist, Bobby Bruce - violinist, Peter Grant - guitarist, Joy Krauthammer - percussionist, Mike Nelson - clarinetist, and surprise musical guests. 

The beloved Hazzan Herschel Fox offers chazzanut / songs from Chassidic dynasties including Lubavitch, Moditzer, Gerer and more. He also shares personal and published stories about the legendary Reb Shlomo Carlebach and Daniel Pearl.

Since Daniel Pearl World Music Days' inception in 2002, more than 6,000 concerts in over 105 countries, with artists from every musical genre and corner of the globe, have been dedicated to Danny's belief that through the universal language of music we can bridge differences and unite people around their shared humanity.     www.danielpearlmusicdays.org  

Reb Shlomo Carlebach channeled a hundred niggunim / wordless melodies each day, and composed thousands of songs and performed world-wide from Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, to New York, Israel, Russia, India and Poland--everywhere. He was known as the "Dancing Rabbi."  Shlomo's songs aroused and uplifted millions, many still devoted, Torah-learned, teaching and performing disciples today. Those that were privileged to know Shlomo on a personal level knew that he was a holy Rabbi, a true Torah Chassid. 

Shlomo played in parks, prisons, hospitals, airplanes, concert halls, camps, retreats, streets, simchas, schools and synagogues. Reb Shlomo would talk to thousands, each on a personal level, inspiring them and assisting in their journey. Shlomo's Torahs, music and videos spanning decades are available on his website.   www.rebshlomo.org    World wide, there are increasing Shlomo minyanim / prayer groups. They are listed in Kol Chevre, annual memorial book published in Jerusalem, and filled with recollections of Reb Shlomo. For a personal story read: http://rebshlomocarlebach-ztl.blogspot.com/

"The universal language and deep soulful power of music bridges cultures bringing the universe closer, which is what both Danny Pearl, z'l, and Reb Shlomo, z'l, stood for: cross-cultural understanding," said Joy Krauthammer, a long-time participant in Daniel Pearl World Music Days, and Reb Shlomo's percussionist and co-producer of Shlomo's Los Angeles concerts the last years of his life. 

"Music, mamash, truly brings us closer to our own hearts, to the Source of All Blessings, and to each other. With harmony, let's embrace our common beating hearts to lift humanity across ethnic and religious differences ." - Joy 

Musicians worldwide participate in this global network of events, commemorating Danny Pearl's October 10th birthday, and inspired by the legacy of journalist and musician Danny, use the power and universal language of music to help encourage and spread across cultures, a message of hope, tolerance, unity and "Harmony for Humanity." 

Daniel Pearl World Music Days was created in response to the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl at the hands of extremists in Karachi, Pakistan. Danny's family and friends came together to work towards a more humane world, forming the Daniel Pearl Foundation, whose mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and dialogue. 

Danny, raised in Encino, was a talented musician who joined musical groups in every community in which he lived around the globe, leaving behind a long trail of musician-friends spanning the entire world. A classically trained violinist, an avid fiddler and a talented mandolin player (who played classical, rock, bluegrass and jazz), Danny used his passion for music to form friendships across cultural divides; Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl lived a life that knew no geographical boundaries, with a spirit that knew no prejudice. Danny lived a life of joy. 

Judea Pearl described his son as having trust in humanity; unyielding honesty, love of life, talking with strangers, befriending the suspecting, living his principles and drawing others to those principles. Judea said that Danny was truly the most gentle person he had ever met. Danny's last words were, "My name is Daniel Pearl. I am Jewish." 

"Danny was a passionate musician, as well as a principled journalist, so World Music Days is the perfect way both to commemorate his birthday and to carry on his legacy of truth, freedom and love of humanity," explained Judea Pearl, Daniel's father and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.  

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