Presence

The Forward has an article on the upcoming O.A.R./Matisyahu show at Madison Sqaure Garden (this Saturday night, tickets are still available). Turns out that Matisyahu and some of O.A.R. all went on High School in Israel.

"Spiritually it got me in touch with a higher power, which was something I had never been through prior to my time there," Gershman wrote in an e-mail to the Forward. "I think, to put it mildly, the experience changed my life in a positive way, and I'm forever grateful for it."

The suburbs can be so uninspiring.

On a personal note, I once got in touch with a higher power in Israel, but that was because I forgot to use a voltage converter on my electric razor.