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Kosher Jam
Eighteen rocks the Torah in Beachwood.
BY SARAH FENSKE
The trio onstage is cute the way pop bands should be: clean-cut and blond and
baggy-jeaned. The music is loud and good, part Weezer, part Barenaked Ladies,
with a pinch of Dave Matthews. It's tough to understand the words, but that
doesn't stop the crowd from singing the chorus with gusto.
It might be any band at any club in the naked city. But the bottle at the lead
singer's feet isn't Jack Daniel's; it's Dasani. Nor is this the Agora; it's
the activity room at Beachwood's Fairmount Temple, and there isn't a joint in
sight.
The band is Eighteen, the biggest thing in Jewish rock
The crowd is into it. Hands clap, heads bob, bodies sway. Bashful guys in
baseball caps attempt something that resembles dancing. When singer Dan Nichols
announces the next song -- something guttural that translates to "Kehila
Kedoshah" in this alphabet -- girls screech. AAAH! AAAAAAAAH! It's Kehila
Kedoshah! ....read
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