This past Tuesday, March 2nd The Manischewitz company held their annual Schmura Matzo Run. Schmura is the “preferred” Matzo of the annual Passover Seder.  The most sacred of kosher traditions, the Schmura Matzo run, marks the production of this sacred matzo at the company’s new state-of-the-art matzo baking facility. Literally translated, Schmura means “watched” as this ceremonial matzo receives special supervision from the time the wheat is harvested to the production at the plant, ensuring that no water is introduced into the process before it’s time. Passover starts on Tuesday, March 30^th and ends Tuesday, April 6^th.

The Schmura Matzo run is the premiere kosher food ritual. This one-day-only run is attended by Senior Members of the Orthodox Union, dignitaries in the kosher world, congregational rabbis and lay leadership. The new Manischewitz plant is also home to the company’s other leading brands such as Goodman’s®, Horowitz Margareten®, Mother’s®, Mrs. Adler’s®, Mishpacha® and more. Manischewitz recently celebrated 120 years, which in Jewish law represents the number that honors old age, and now they are embarking on the next 120 years.

The Shmurah Matzoh run is complete in a one to ten hour shift. How many matzho’s are made in that run you might ask? There are about 200 individual Matzoh’s per case, and about 24 boxes in a case. That’s a lot of Matzohs!

At any given time there are at least five people on the floor overseeing the Matzoh process. Just three years ago Manischewitz switched from a old brick over to a more technology advanced temperature controlled oven, making the process more technologically inclined, electronically operated now. The old machine itself used to be 100ft, and the new improved one is 150ft-width 50inch’s.

Menucha 2 is now available to download!!! The physical CD will be in NY
stores sometime tomorrow & everywhere else (domestically) over the weekend.
It happens to be Eli’s 30th birthday (chaf hey adar), so this will be

a great present!!Mazel Tov Eli

The album which features 10 brand new songs, composed and arranged by Eli Gerstner, (with some arrangements by Yisroel Lamm) is sure to thrill fans. The album also features guest appearances from; Yaakov Mordechai Gerstner, The Yeshiva Boys Choir, Dovid Stein, and of course Eli Gerstner.

Heres the link for downloads

http://www.mostlymusic.com/shmayisroel-p-4412.html

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/MENUCHA

Heres the link to purchase the actual physical CD
http://www.jewishjukebox.com/products/chassidic_music/2308.asp

YOSSI PIAMENTA

Live At Southpaw

2 sets of all new material

125 5th Avenue
(between st johns and sterling streets)
Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday March 24th
Doors Open at 8pm

$12 in advance
$20 day of show

www.spsounds.com

FREE

Shlomo Carlebach download “Barcheinu Avinu” from the new release Songs of Peace

Click HERE to download courtesy of Sojourn Records

[HT: NeshamaHQ Twitter]

Nolan Jackson sings Binyan Adei Ad with EvanAL Orchestra at Eli Lax’s Sisters wedding.

Mishpacha Magazine will be including a little something extra in your Peasch issue this year, a brand new CD. The album entitled “Kedai R’ Shimon Bar Yochai” is produced by TeeM Productions. “Kedai R’ Shimon Bar Yochai” includes brand new songs composed by Yossi Green & Pinky Weber. Arranged by Mona Rosenblum, Moshe Laufer and Leib Yaacov Rigler. The vocals are done by the best and most sought in the business, Avraham Fried, Shloime Gertner, Shloime Taussig, Yisroel Werdyger, Shragy Gestetner, Motty Ilowitz and Chilu Posen. The CD will have 7 songs. Check back here in the next few days for a sampler.

Well we just got another BRAND NEW CLIP from the upcoming Menuha album. This song is called “Racheim Al Tzion” and it features YBC & Yaakov Mordechai Gerstner. Not only that,the song will be featured at the upcoming YBC Live! Pesach ‘2010 show on Thursday night April 1st in Queens College. The album will iy”h start to hit stores in the surrounding NYC area later today and tomorrow. As soon as the album hits Sameach Music you can order it by visiting JewishJukebox.com.

Town 6 Entertainment presents

Gershon Veroba & Takana @ the Jewish Music Cafe

…plus special guest, Leibel Ben Moshe