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WITH SCORES OF SELL-OUT CONCERT PERFORMANCES AND
RECORD-BREAKING CD SALES, SHOOBY DOOB SHLOIMY, THE FUN
AND FUNKY MITZVAH KID, IS FAST ESTABLISHING HIMSELF AS THE
WORLD’S FAVOURITE IN EDUCATIONAL JEWISH KIDS’ SONGS.
she has got it down to a fine art, if you will
excuse the pun. She has a passion for poetry and verse, and gets the children to really
listen and tune in to what she is teaching
by inspiring them, motivating them, or as
us Jewish moms would say, chupping
them, through song and rhyme. “If you really love and feel what you do, you can pass
that innate joy onto others and get them to
love it too.” And as for Mark – in a sense,
he truly is the real Shloimy, as Shooby
Doob encompasses all of Mark’s greatest
passions – “yiddishkeit, educating, inspiring kids, singing, composing and performing” – taking all these lofty ideals out of the
boring box and from the pages of dry textbooks and bringing everything to life
through the power behind the words and
the emotion behind ѡ