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Jewish Star: JJ Halsband

For the Jewish Star singing competition, JJ Halsband, a 6th grader in Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, sings the soulful camp classic "Oy Rebbe." Video

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great job jj
January 17, 2012 8:59 pm

take it all the way young man chazak veeamtz

FROM A FELLOW COMPETITOR
January 17, 2012 12:32 am

NICE JOB! MENDEL PIEKARSKI

can u do another one pls!
January 16, 2012 6:25 pm

like ‘even though im just a boy of four………..”

OMG
January 16, 2012 5:40 pm

i watched this like 5x………….beautifully done!!

very emotional
January 16, 2012 5:35 pm

he presents very well…love the song but doesn’t give his voice enough credit….he should try one with more high parts

to #22
January 16, 2012 4:14 pm

here are the words to the song: With a tehillim ,he sat throught the night. pondering deeply into his plight. The Rebbes image infront of his eyes,oh where is moshiach he sighs. 3 times a day we would have the great zechus . The Nosi hador would come daven with us. HOw can i live when a shabbas goes by, without a farbrengen he cries……. Chorus: Rebbe ,oh Rebbe, we need you, Hashem, Hashem,Kel Rachum… we’re sick of this golus,can’t bare anymore,why dont you open the door???? your children are yearning to be with you, how long can this golus… Read more »

vote vote!!
January 16, 2012 4:10 pm

vote for JJ!!!

happy tears
January 16, 2012 11:22 am

your voice and the words of the song bring tears of joy to my eyes as they will help to bring moshiah. there must be special meaning in the portrait in front of which you sang. please share meaning as well as artist.

Beautifully done!
January 16, 2012 3:53 am

It would be nice to have the words posted. Thanks in
advance!

brilliant!
January 15, 2012 11:43 pm

Nice one JJ boy!
you are making us proud. keep it up!
your Uncle Zalmy

u rock!
January 15, 2012 10:48 pm

u rock!

COLLIVE תוכן
January 15, 2012 10:41 pm

ב”ה תוכן’דיק

you make us proud
January 15, 2012 10:33 pm

well done JJ. Straight from the heart!! we need more songs like this!! enough of all the secular turn-arounds!!!

Love it!
January 15, 2012 10:31 pm

Go JJ!
Yossi and Esther

go jj!!!!
January 15, 2012 10:09 pm

beautiful!!! you did a great job! go jj!!
love ur engel cousins, fl

so nice
January 15, 2012 8:48 pm

to see a young chossid singing a song about the rebbe for a jewsih star!!!
hatzlacha and lots of chassidishe nachas

beautiful
January 15, 2012 7:57 pm

really moved!

im inspired
January 15, 2012 7:35 pm

you sing beautifully
youre a chossid of th rebbe

Faige!!!
January 15, 2012 7:35 pm

Wow, lots of nachas. We miss your fabulous “good morning, darling” greeting us in the office, when we were backed up on the 95!
Love the video! Hope he wins,
Yehudis

this kid is a cutie-pie :)
January 15, 2012 7:31 pm

chazak veematz

Musical family!
January 15, 2012 6:56 pm

I guess music runs in the veins of the Halsband/Levy families!
I’m a big fan of his Uncle! can’t stop watching his video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiS3VLswpKE&feature=g-all-pls&context=G2031156FAAAAAAAAAAA

from freezing montreal!!
January 15, 2012 6:52 pm

good job j – dot. really well done. sung from the heart!!
love uncle harry and vorie
see u soon

Great job!!
January 15, 2012 6:23 pm

We are very proud of you, J.J.!!
You have such a beautiful voice!

Your Engel cousins in Australia

Well Done.
January 15, 2012 6:10 pm

Beautiful.

meaninful
January 15, 2012 5:54 pm
chazak v'ematz
January 15, 2012 5:46 pm

Wow, this made me really miss the Rebbe, and I’m not even old enough to remember seeing the Rebbe.

jj halsband
January 15, 2012 5:38 pm

you rock

pure quality
January 15, 2012 4:55 pm

a great camp song, sung beatifully

Amazing
January 15, 2012 4:14 pm

Amazing I do not know J.J. but this song comes from the heart and touches one’s Neshoma.

I give credit to his family,his teachers at his school for teaching him what it means to be a true Chossid of the Rebbe.

very well produced
January 15, 2012 4:11 pm
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