By COLlive reporter
Photos by Levi Israeli for COLlive
Smoke filled the Razag ballroom in Crown Heights Sunday as a camera crew filmed the music video for a song that will raise public awareness and gain support for two Yeshiva bochurim imprisoned in Japan.
The “Japan Song,” sung by Jewish music superstar Avraham Fried and singer Shloime Daskal, is a remake of Yaakov Shwekey’s “Tatte” and Abie Rotenberg’s “In A Vinkele.”
Chile-born independent filmmaker Mauricio Arenas is directing the video together with Danny Finkelman and Ilya Lishinsky. The three also collaborated on the Unity song for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
Since April 2008, Israeli bochurim Yoel Zev Goldstein and Yaakov Yosef Greenwald have been incarcerated in a Japanese prison after drugs were found in suitcases that they were carrying for someone else.
Musician Moshe Orenstein was also present at the video shoot. COLlive.com got an exclusive sneak peek into the filming.
do u think he has a shirt for each day of the year????
Isnt Fried wearing the same shirt as Rak Tfila and Father dont Cry video??
YOSSI SASSON!! #1!
Yay! You are seriously unfathomably amazing!! Now go look up what that word means!
how dumb – maybe read the article and you will find out!!
Moshe the guitarist – what’s his last name?
moishe ur the best and will alwayz be the best guitarist in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moshe the gutarist looks so cute!
what is the name of the guitarist?
Looks like he’s really crying.
WOHOOOOOOOOOO