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_Jewish Exponent: 'Rapping' His Way Through the Bible

_"Matt Bar would like you to know that he's not white -- just Jewish. At least, that's the tongue-in-cheek response-turned-song that the Center City resident came up with years ago to explain how he eased into an otherwise all-black rap group."

Jerry Silverman, President, UJA

“Matt is a rock star pioneering new ways to educate our children. He has mastered the difficult art of making text study relevant, creative and fun for Jewish youth... His method really works!”
- Jerry Silverman, President, UJA

MyJewishLearning.com: Matt Bar Sees Dead People

Matt Bar sees dead people.
He doesn’t hold séances or visit graveyards — not literal graveyards, anyway. Instead, he takes revisits key moments in Jewish history from the Torah and Tanakh, and breathes new life into them...

The Jew Spot: Who Said Jewish Boys Can't Rap?

Rapper and educator Matt Bar infects his students with Torah. He’ll take a lesson plan, spin it on its head, and bust out rap lyrics that get kids crazy about learning. These lyrics from his song “Rabbi Akiva and Raquel: Learn Torah” not only teaches the story of Akiva’s struggle to study, but also teaches students they can learn anything if they try, bit by bit...

The Forward: Holy Hip-Hop.

It’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....
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