Hip-Hoppin’ Jews:

Description

The first two generations of secular Zionist Israelis maintained an abiding connection to the Bible even as they rejected its religious authority. By contrast, popular wisdom would have many think that for the current secular generation, the Bible is both unfamiliar and irrelevant. This is not the case.

Evidence of the Bible’s influence can be found in contemporary rock, hip-hop and rap music. Israeli pop stars who are fiercely irreligious, are actually mining Jewish sacred texts for use in their art: providing an unexpected window to explore Israeli culture as both secular and Jewish.