Gabe Salgado

Website : http://www.gabesalgado.com

Residence : Berkeley, California

Biographical information

Gabe Salgado specializes in Jewish education through Israeli culture and art, especially modern Hebrew music from Israel. For the past four years, he has worked as the Youth Director at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, California, where he managed three youth groups, a summer day camp, and Temple Isaiah's religious school B'nai Mitzvah program and "Seventh Grade Fund" Youth Foundation. He also taught at Temple Isaiah Teen School, specializing in Israel studies and critical thinking. Salgado lived in Israel for 6 years, living and working on a Kibbutz, serving in the Israeli military, and later living in to Tel Aviv. In the IDF, he served as a squad commander in the "Nachal" infantry brigade. Following his army service, Salgado lived in Tel Aviv and worked for the Jewish Agency's Education Department as an Israel teen trip counselor for American youth. He studied at San Francisco State University and is a graduate of the San Francisco Bay Area "Tikea Fellowship" program for Jewish teen educators.

Discussion topics

Note: Custom presentations and workshops using specific themes, topics and songs, can be created upon request. These presentations are only the beginning. Artists whose music is featured in these presentations include: Hadag Nahash, Tipex, Subliminal and the Shadow, MC Mansour, Mook E, Eyfo Hayeled, Ehud Manor, Aviv Gefen, and many more.

• Israel from Bumper to Bumper
  A riveting multimedia journey through the intense world of Israeli political expression. Images of bumper stickers, graffiti, and other methods of political sloganeering are creatively employed to paint a rich picture of a highly self-reflective, democratic Israeli society where the political discourse is passionate and the invective often goes too far. Hadag Nahash's Shirat HaSticker ("The Sticker Song") serves as the centerpiece, with two other powerful Hadag Nahash songs as bookends.
• Political Ideology in Israeli Music
  Israeli mainstream music is uniquely infused with passionately felt and well-articulated ideological themes. This presentation cleverly and effectively examines the implicit and overt political statements in Israeli music, beginning with the Nachal Band's Shir Lashalom in the 1970's, and concluding with politically charged 21st century Israeli rap songs.
• Microphones Instead of Bombs: Dueling Ideologies in Israeli Rap
  This examination of highly provocative themes and radically alternative points of view will challenge everything you thought you knew about the Arab-Israeli conflict! This presentation takes a sobering look at six recent Hebrew rap songs that are steeped in the intense politics of the Israeli-Arab conflict. These songs are sometimes frustrating in their biting language and simultaneously hopeful in that young artists are putting their energies into music instead of violence. Some songs will strike a chord, others will make you angry, and all are guaranteed to make you think.
• The Israeli Clash: The Jewish State of Contradiction
  Israel is a multifaceted country of contrasts: a modern state in an ancient land, a secular society within a Jewish state, a safe place for children to grow up- and a dangerous place to live from day to day. This presentation deals with the dilemmas of life in Israel through a series of modern Hebrew rap, rock and traditional songs that contain powerful images and articulate soul-searching on the Israeli condition.

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