(RNS) The Rolling Stones will begin their first concert in Israel 45 minutes later than originally scheduled to accommodate religious Jewish fans.
The Stones’ June 4 Tel Aviv concert was initially set to begin at 8:30 p.m., just minutes after the end of the Shavuot holiday, the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which commemorates Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
Orthodox Jews do not drive on the Sabbath or holidays, so it would have been impossible for them to arrive at the venue on time. Many of the Stones’ biggest Israeli fans — modern Orthodox baby boomers who moved to Israel from English-speaking countries — had begged the event promoter, Shuki Weiss Promotion and Production, to push forward the starting time.
“Following many requests from the public, particularly the observant public, to delay the starting hour for the performance, the City of Tel Aviv, together with the production team, decided to change the starting time,” the promoter said in a press release.
Reprint of earlier article from Ben Sales for JTA
The top 10 Rolling Stones Shavuot songs.
(Props to the Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov for this idea.)
- Sympathy for the Devil’s Food Cake — We can’t have meat, but at least we can have great dessert.
- (Don’t) Gimme Shellfish — The laws of kashrut, put to hard rock.
- Wild Moses — Check out Charlton Heston’s beard in “The Ten Commandments.” Now tell me Moses wasn’t wild.
- Dairy Tuesday — This one really only works this year.
- 19th Nervous Breakdown — The song title is the same, but this time it’s about a Jewish mother.
- Let’s Spend the Night Together… Learning Torah — Probably not what you expected from a Stones song.
- Holy Talk Woman — Shavuot night at Yeshivat Maharat.
- It’s Only Lox and Rolls But I Like It — Nothing like a good bagel.
- Write with Fire – According to legend, God wrote the Ten Commandments with black fire on white fire. Don’t try this at home.
- Hey, Jew, Get Off of My Cow – Moses gets angry about the Golden Calf
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