20 For 20 : 20% of Music CD Sales Goes to Atlanta Jewish Music Festival

20 For 20: For the next 20 days, now through the end of Hanukkah, December 9th, 20% of ModernTribe.com's music CD sales goes to Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF).

Plus, you can donate to AJMF through ModernTribe: 100% of proceeds goes to support the new and totally awesome Atlanta Jewish Music Festival.

So -- try some new music! and help bring Atlanta the festival our fabulous city deserves.

ABOUT AJMF

Lead by ModernTribe friend Russell Gottschalk and launched last year with bands: 4th Ward Afro-Klemzer Orchestra, Girls In Trouble, DeLeon, and Moshav, the burgeoning Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF) is on its way to rock Atlanta with progressive contemporary Jewish music. Our next festival is May 19-21!

Full disclosure: I'm on the steering committee for AJMF.

So, try some new -- great -- music + help bring AJMF -- coming MAY 19-21 2011 -- with an $18 --  $36 -- $54 donation. Shop Now!

My Favorite New Menorahs -- 2010 Hanukkah Gift Guide

Taking an innovative approach to Hanukkah doesn’t mean downloading a menorah-lighting-app to your iPhone. Keep tradition burning with these modern interpretations of menorahs for your home:

Areaware improves an ancient design by integrating a tray to their Wrought Iron Menorah ($150) that catches the candle drippings. I love this menorah because the lines are sleek, simple and modern but the heaftiness makes it feel like a barn-shed tool in your hand. Very manly.

Peacocks are a hot motif this year. Jonathan Adler’s Peacock Menorah ($120) will give you something to strut about: either you’ve given the best gift at the party or you’ve got the finest menorah on the block. (Pictured with our candles.)

Designed in Israel, handmade from resin in a Bulgarian fair-trade women's work group, the Funky Menorah by Lalo Treasures ($98) will fill all eight crazy nights with sparkle and flair.

Upgrade your menorah lighting experience. Use modern, tubular, drip-less candles like these above that we gifted to Jonathan Adler ($14). Lose the free matches from the diner, light up with a bang with Pistolight by Sooda Mayer ($10) or go old style but in style with Jonathan Adler's Pipe Match Holder and Strike!

See our entire 2010 Hanukkah Gift Guide for unique Hanukkah gifts for everyone. Even your non-Jewish friends will want this stuff it's so fab.

Hanukkah Gifts For Dad -- 2010 Hanukkah Gift Guide

For Hanukkah this year we're focusing on the rebel in the family . . . Dear Old Dad. While he may seem to be under Mom's thumb, deep down he has a heart of a Maccabee, the Jewish army whose victorious revolt led to the Festival of Lights.


Whether it's the first night or the last, the Hammer Bottle Opener ($10) and Union of Jewish Handymen T-Shirt ($24.95) are perfect gifts to honor Dad's hammer like ways. Add a Set of 4 He'Brew Beer Pint Glasses ($26.95) to keep smashing the stereotype that Jews don’t drink.


Artori Design Studio's Action Bookends ($46) will certainly recognize Pop's 007 style. Of course, if Dad is really the kind of guy who likes to run with scissors, then the Butter Dish by Jonathan Adler ($58) will let him dine with his shoe on the table.


With a pair of Sterling Half-Shekel Cufflinks ($99) and a Yiddish Proverb Money Clip ($16.99) in his pocket, your dad will be as gangster as Arnold Rothstein as he slips you some gambling gelt to play No Limit Texas Dreidel.

Visit ModernTribe for Hanukkah gifts for all the miracles in your life.