Rivie Schwebel is an acclaimed singer, but he’s also a businessman and an askan who cares deeply for the Jewish people.
(Photos Shulim Goldring Meir Haltovsky Family archives)
You know that thing that music is meant to do? How it kind of makes us happy but also wistful? How we feel nostalgic for times gone by but also inspired about the day ahead?
Rivie Schwebel’s living room has a pretty similar effect it turns out.
About half an hour into our interview I excuse myself to cancel the next meeting. This feels like a place I don’t want to leave.
When chatting with the man with one of the most distinctive voices in Jewish music the music and the setting becomes the metaphor: everything else falls into place. Rivie and his wife talk real-life responsibility to family to the community to the older generation and the next generation.
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