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Jewish rapper from Youngstown State gets record deal; Cleveland Indians go kosher


Last two for the night:

About that YSU rapper, here’s info from the original article:

Eighteen-year-old freshman Jonathon Tepper is working on a fashion marketing degree at Youngstown State University, but has recently successfully marketed himself to the music industry.

Tepper, aka Throwback the Jewish King, has just signed a major record deal to New York’s top independent record label, Affluent Records, which has a few other artists such as Outlawz, Dead Prez and Hood Surgeon.

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As far as being from Youngstown, Throwback raps that people hate on the Yo’, but he’s proud of where he comes from. In his songs, he focuses on misconceptions of a city back on the rise.

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Throwback has done many local performances in Youngstown and the surrounding area, which has contributed to his success. He has released a album locally, but by the summer time he will celebrate his nationwide release of his first major album, “Ballin’ Since Birth.”

What a nice Jewish boy – to be paying homage to the matzah ball since he was a little kinderlach.

And about the Indians, they first read about it in our own Cleveland Jewish News:

It took nearly half of last year’s baseball season for rabbinically supervised, strictly kosher hot dogs to be served at Indians games.

This year, Jewish baseball fans can enjoy kosher franks starting with the Tribe’s very first game.

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Ghazi Faddoul, a Lebanese Christian who runs the kosher Subway restaurant at The Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, started the stand last June with help from Clevelanders Earl Lefkovitz and Tom Sudow. The two men also assisted in launching the stadium’s very first kosher stand in 1998.

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The Indians discontinued rabbinical oversight on glatt kosher hot dogs, soft drinks, and other treats last season in order to expand menu offerings for fans. But months of negotiations by Lefkovitz and Sudow with the team, food distributors, and kosher organizations brought kashrut back to the ballpark.

I don’t go to the ballpark for the kosher fare, but I know that baseball is enormously popular with my rabbis, among others. So it’s nice that they are making nice.

By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:56 pm April 4th, 2008 in Business, Cleveland+, Jewish, Judaism, Ohio, Sports 

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5 Responses to “Jewish rapper from Youngstown State gets record deal; Cleveland Indians go kosher”

  1. 1 Joseph on April 5th, 2008 9:48 am

    Did I read that correctly… is there really rabbinical oversight of soft drinks?

    I mean- it’s just water, sugar and some chemicals. Pretty much guaranteed to be pareve, no?

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on April 5th, 2008 9:56 am

    ROFL Joseph, I don’t keep kosher – never have. But yeah – I guess so. :)

  3. 3 Ben Keeler on April 5th, 2008 6:06 pm

    Thats what I was thinking when I sae the mention of “soft drinks”

  4. 4 Joseph on April 5th, 2008 7:11 pm

    I was talking with someone today about soft drinks and they mentioned that they LOVE Coca-Cola for passover – which is made with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup – since corn is one of the grains that can’t be consumed during Passover.

    It is supposed to taste way better than the corn syrup based version- not that i’d know since I only drink diet.

    Anyway- it appears only to be available in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles – so I can’t imagine that’s what they are serving at the stadium.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on April 5th, 2008 7:56 pm

    I was in Heinen’s a couple of hours ago and sure enough, in the Kosher for Passover section, liter after liter of kosher l’pesach Coke, Diet Coke etc. Not to mention Streit matzah, in addition to the Manischewitz, though not in good flavors.

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