https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/10/getting-down-at-the-yiddish-festival/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 20:34:01 -0400<![CDATA[On weekends, Sheryl and I seem to end up in LA&#8217;s Little Tokyo more often than not &#8211; and not just because of Madeleine&#8217;s precocious love of sushi. There often seems to be something interesting happening there and this Sunday it was, of all things, the Yiddishkayt Festival. Well, that&#8217;s my culture and I&#8217;m always up for a little klezmer music, so we headed down. But we weren&#8217;t prepared for the group below led by Josh &#8220;Socalled&#8221; Dolgin on the accordion. His band played a mixture of gospel, hiphop and klezmer &#8211; and it worked! But there&#8217;s no surprise, really. Blacks and Jews have been piggy-backing off each others&#8217; music since the beginning of the last century &#8211; although I have to admit we got more from them than vice-versa. Still, Gershwin didn&#8217;t do so bad with it. I wonder what he would have made of the Socalled Band. I bet he would have dug them. I sure did.]]>Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:37:34 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2004/10/10/getting-down-at-the-yiddish-festival-n205114