1. Lipa Schmeltzer is an American singer, entertainer, and composer.
23 Facts About Lipa Schmeltzer
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Lipa Schmeltzer is a headliner in Hasidic as well as modern Jewish communities worldwide.
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Reuven Lipa Schmeltzer was one of the 1,684 Jews who escaped Nazi-controlled Hungary on the Kastner train and spent time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before being released in Switzerland.
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Lipa Schmeltzer suffered from an undiagnosed attention deficit disorder and had difficulty concentrating.
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Lipa Schmeltzer studied at the Makova yeshiva in Kiryat Ata, Israel.
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Lipa Schmeltzer married his wife, Miriam, a native of New Square, on August 27,1998.
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Lipa Schmeltzer earned a reputation as a natural performer, and began releasing recordings and videos.
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Lipa Schmeltzer's music has both gained popularity and generated controversy within the American Hasidic community due to the fusion of traditional Hasidic music and lyrics with contemporary music styles.
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Lipa Schmeltzer's concerts are not gender-segregated, as is the norm in Hasidic circles.
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Lipa Schmeltzer has been criticized for introducing "too modern" musical styles to the Hasidic community.
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Lipa Schmeltzer has written songs and performed in response to tragedies within the Hasidic community.
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Lipa Schmeltzer was part of an all-star group of Jewish musicians who produced a musical tribute to Sholom Rubashkin after the latter's conviction in federal court in 2010.
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Lipa Schmeltzer was quoted by The New York Times as saying, "I have a career, I have a wife and kids to support, I have a mortgage to pay, I have to get out of the fire".
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Three months after the controversy, Lipa Schmeltzer released his next album, titled A Poshiter Yid, with a cover image and songs that portrayed him as a tradition-minded, Torah-observant Jew instead of the rock idol portrayed by the ban.
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In 2010, Lipa Schmeltzer built a synagogue, Beis Medrash D'Airmont, in the village of Airmont, New York.
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Lipa Schmeltzer attended Rockland Community College, a two-year school which is part of the State University of New York system.
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Lipa Schmeltzer pursued a dual associate degree in performing arts and liberal arts.
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In 2014, Lipa Schmeltzer was studying Creative Writing and Visual Art at Columbia University's School of General Studies.
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In December 2011, Lipa Schmeltzer sang at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual Hanukkah party at the Jewish Heritage Museum, accompanied by the Freilach Orchestra.
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In December 2015, Lipa Schmeltzer sang at the annual White House Hanukkah Party, and promised President Barack Obama a special gift, a gold and silver yarmulke.
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In May 2016, Lipa Schmeltzer traveled to Washington, DC, and delivered Obama the promised gift of a gold and silver yarmulke.
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In 2016, Lipa Schmeltzer appeared in an Israeli television ad for Pepsi Max.
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In December 2016, Lipa Schmeltzer sang "God Bless America" in Yiddish in Brooklyn Borough Hall at the inauguration of New York Civil Court Judge Rachel Freier.