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Holy Hip Hop

Forward

t’s Saturday night in Jerusalem’s Talbieh neighborhood, and a crowd of 50 is gathered to hear Matt Bar rap about the Bible. The lanky Iowa City native has achieved a kind of celebrity among young Anglos in Jerusalem with his Bible Raps project, a phenomenon he’s hoping to repeat this summer when he travels to Jewish summer camps across America...

... ' his particular blend of folk music and rap - ' Bar paid the bills by teaching sixth graders at Temple Sholom in Greenwich, Conn. If his students behaved, he'd freestyle about the Bible during the last five minutes of class. "Every other Sunday, ...

...Life in Israel is markedly different from life in New York. But it’s a change Bar embraces.

“I like Israel, man. I like talking about Judaism,” he said with a laugh. “And there’s a lot more people to do that with here than in the company I usually keep.”

And he continues to revel in writing raps.

“It’s nice to write on behalf of something a little bigger than yourself, that you believe in, you know? It’s a good thing.”

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