{"id":33399,"date":"2025-07-09T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=33399"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:57:25","slug":"the-guns-of-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/the-guns-of-klezmer\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GUNS OF KLEZMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nViolinist Yale Strom of San Diego led a terrific trad klezmer band at a recent Cain Park concert in Cleveland Heights. Then a Michigan bar band followed, playing klez-infused jazz improvisation. But neither was the highlight.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight was when the emcee announced a raffle for a Glock gun. The audience &#8212; approximately 75\u00a0 mostly elderly Jews &#8212; heard a Glock-shpiel.<\/p>\n<p>Here (see below) is pretty much what the emcee said. [This is from a Facebook post, edited for clarity and length.]\u00a0<em>This is not fiction:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">SAVE THE \u201cCONCERT IN THE PARK\u201d FUNDRAISER<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">July 13\u00a0 1-5 pm<br \/>\nThe Parma Armory<br \/>\n5301 Houserman Rd.<br \/>\nParma OH<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">$40 per ticket. Each ticket gets you in the drawing for a chance to win a new Glock 9 mm pistol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Only 50 tickets will be sold!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Shooting lanes open to ticket holders only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Don\u2019t have your own gun? You can rent one at the armory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Workmen\u2019s Circle Educational Center of\u00a0Ohio wants to thank you for your donation to help save the Concert in the Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To win the firearm you must pass the FFL background check.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If the winner fails the background check, another name will be drawn!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thank you for your donation to help save the klezmer Concert in the Park.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/glock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Violinist Yale Strom of San Diego led a terrific trad klezmer band at a recent Cain Park concert in Cleveland Heights. Then a Michigan bar band followed, playing klez-infused jazz improvisation. But neither was the highlight. The highlight was when the emcee announced a raffle for a Glock gun. The audience &#8212; approximately 75\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33399"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33451,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions\/33451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}