Jesse Yishai Romanoff
Jesse Yishai Romanoff - as the New York Times wrote: “At age 6, he was a budding yeshiva student, in white shirt and black hat, with little contact outside the Orthodox Jewish world. At 16, he discovered some things he liked better, punk rock and drugs. At 26, on the Thursday before the holiday of Purim last month, he was back among the faithful, sort of: side curls flailing, knees jackknifing up around his torso, leaping, crouching, shouting a Scriptural message from the Book of Ramones: “Avraham was a punk rocker.”
Yishai is the founder of Moshiach Oi! Hassidic punk band, performing on Governor’s Island with a special Father’s Day show at Art Kibbutz. The band was featured in the movie Punk Jews, and recently in Michael Crowland’s Oy, Oy, Oy, Gevalt book.
Yishai is the founder of Moshiach Oi! Hassidic punk band, performing on Governor’s Island with a special Father’s Day show at Art Kibbutz. The band was featured in the movie Punk Jews, and recently in Michael Crowland’s Oy, Oy, Oy, Gevalt book.