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Last Updated on October 18, 2008

Recently, after a gig, I walked a few blocks over to the Apple Store on 5th Avenue, corner of 59th St. in Manhattan...

As you can see, one can't miss it, it's like The Retail Kotel of All Things Mac... And you can see how I feel about Kotel -- I got a photo I took of it as the Background Image throughout this website...

So there I was, "Round About" 1 AM on Sunday, and the place was packed with folks from everywhere, but what caught my attention right away was a bunch of Jews with yarmulkes, some of whom looked like they could have been from Chabad. Floating around this store, next to Chinese and other tourists, they looked even more distinct...

Get a Mac!

OK, you are right, I did copy the above pictures (click on them) form my ''other page", where I describe my Shwekey Recording Session. Look, this webpage is not meant as some Apple Propaganda, product placement stuff -- this is MY LIFE, and I definitely have a few things to say about these 3 Keywords:

Baseball - Apple - Jews!

I could write a book about this photo alone, but then who's gonna practice my sax for me?! And, ironically, 2 days later I went to the Old Yankee Stadium for the 1st Time!!!! Which reminde me of this...

Someone can learn how to swing a baseball a bat without even being Jewish or a Mac-Apple admirer!

Someone can learn how to "swing" on a Mac without even being a baseball or Torah admirer!

Someone can learn how to "swing" on Torah, memorizing Parshahs word for word, and appear really smart, without even being Jewish or a Mac-Apple admirer!

Or one can Swing On Torah with his saxophone, poetry, multimedia?, like Arkady ...?!

The folks at Apple are the best I know at combining the Technology and Art! Maybe subconsiously, or not, I am burrowing from Steve Job's, Apple CEO's musings? You tell me, after you read this interview!, where, specifically on this Page 3 of 6, this paragraph The Question of Art. Vs. Technology connects to essence of

JEWJAZZ -  a concept born out of a personal journey!

I've done a wide variety of gigs in my life, but the Orthodox Jewish gigs are some of the few times where I recall seeing long speeches, at a wedding, for example. It could be a Rabbi or a relative speaking, and get pretty "heavy", with references to Torah and other religious writings! The guests often don't even pay attention, cause they've heard plenty of such talks, and musicians are glad to be on a break, so that they can hang out. But sometimes I chose to listent to those speeches, and what I saw in many of them was a this common thread:

Lust for Learning!

Whether it's a musician learning as much as possible about music, or kids of all ages learning Torah and such, let's hope that such ''lust', hunger, thurst, and whatever other synonyms, don't go away, but only get stronger in everyone!

So, if you are still reading this, you are probably asking: so what does it have to do with baseball?

Baseball, like sports in general, is a game for the kids of all ages! Music is that way too! So, when I see an obviously Observant Jew with a Mac, to me, Arkady, these thoughts come back!

Why? Cause, as we all know, Jews are a minority in this world, as is Apple vs. Windows, David against Goliath, or you can choose your own metaphors, but these days Mac OS X can run Windows! So, The Chicken or the Egg -- Who's On First:) !?!?! And don't they use that expression in baseball, where one doesn't have to be Jewish or a Mac-Apple admirer!?

And it's like that with music -- One doesn't have to be Jewish to like Levy's Rye Bread or Arkady - The Other Side CD! And don't even get me started with iPhone!!! Or is it a jPhone , like in the following video below!?!?!

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