Introduction

On October 12, 2003 Louis Kaplan and I stood under a new media chuppah in a nineteenth century stone distillery in Toronto Canada. Together we created a ritual that played between contemporary performance art and the customs of the traditional Jewish wedding. Solomon and Socalled’s Hip Hop Khasene served as the musical accompaniment to our multi-media video extravaganza with cutting edge performances from new wave Klezmer musicians, Sophie Solomon, Josh Dolgin, Michael Alpert and David Krakauer.