Singer Simcha Leiner’s new music video, “Life’s better when your with your brother,” is a song celebrating the power that each and every one of us has to stand up to a bully.
After reaching out to educators and Mechanchim around the world, Simcha embarked on the monumental task of crisscrossing the country recording over 1000 boys together to form a Chorus of Unity. Each of the children were given a chance to discuss how bullying can affect their friend.
A global anti-bullying initiative is currently being prepped for launch to further establish an ongoing awareness of the power of anti-bullying tactics.
LYRICS:
Why do we push to be apart
Why don’t we be a apart of something—
Something that is so much stronger
Why are we silent in our pain
Why don’t we join to see a change
Something that will bring us closer
Life’s better when you’re with your brother
Let us all stand up for each other
Watch our struggles fade away, let’s create a brighter day…
Now’s the time to come together
We can bridge the gap forever
You and I must pave the way,
Make our world a better place
I know that you’re feeling so alone
But I’ll make your troubles be my own
Picking up those broken pieces
Building you up to find your strength
You can be confident again
See all of the good I’m seein’
Song composed and arranged by: Simcha Leiner
Lyrics by: Mrs. Ruchie Torgow and Simcha Leiner
Song Mixed and Mastered by: Chaim Gottesman
Production by: Yochi Briskman
Video concept by: Simcha Leiner and Kylie Yanay
Director of Photography: Basti Hansen and Duvie Maryles (Revive Multimedia)
Media by: The great! Chayale Kaufman (JCN)
Special thanks to Ami Magazine
Actors:
Choni Teitelbaum – Young Rebbi
Avi Rosman – Young Student
Akiva Schechter – Middle Age Student
Rabbi Yitzchok Selmar – Current Rebbi
Thank you to the following schools for opening their doors to us and allowing us to include their precious students in the production.
Toronto Cheder – Rabbi Dov Gopin
JEC Elizabeth NJ – Rabbi Uzi Beer
Yeshiva of South Shore – Rabbi Zev Davidowitz
HALB – Rabbi Yehuda Fogel
Torah Academy of Boca Raton – Rabbi Reuven Feinberg
Talmudical Academy of Baltimore – Rabbi Yanky Lefkowitz
Arie Crowne HDS – Rabbi Menachem Kirschner
Yavneh Academy – Rabbi Moshe Dear
Maimonidies Hebrew Academy – Rabbi Aharon Wilk
Yeshivat Ohr Haemet – Rabbi Zvi Kamenetzky
great video . showed it to my 8th grade class.
want to see more of these.
zg
Pretending the world is all male is bullying. Pretending there is no way to depict tznius role models for girls is bullying. Pretending that the feminine ideal is invisibility is bullying.
“During recess the teacher should observe the students most attentively.”
The Educator’s Handbook, page 26.
some of the comments here are really showing how the blame is being shifted solely to the school. Parents; take responsibility for your children by being a role model, which is the best teacher for anything. Your children will learn from you more than from anyone else.
Anyone home? NO. It is not tznius for girls to sing and dance in public! If you are a Lubavitcher, maybe you heard about our Rebbitzen, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka? Do you know how much she treasured her tznius? Most people ( living in Crown Heights!) never even saw her, because as soon as people started recognizing her, she stopped going out in public? Not even to the grocery store. Not even to shul! And you want her daughters to prance around in a music video? BTW, do you know that men and boots over 9 can’t watch their daughters/sisters in… Read more »
Our schools don’t have a bullying issue: they have a SUPERVISION issue. Why are five classes at a time in the yard at recess and where are their teachers? (!) Why are 25 six year olds sitting by themselves in the lunchroom? Our schools unfortunately are not safe… Boys will be boys is not a philosophy of education… I thought #5 said it very well.
toronto cheder
it says in the ami that he did include lubavitch
Lubavitcher lives matter too!
BS”D
It is worth hearing the story of how the Rebbe did not have 2 Frabrengins so as not to coincide with the Bar Mitzvah of a boy who had been bullied
my term paper for college was on Bullying. I’ll email to anyone who wants to look at it.
Why no Lubavitch schools in the video? mmm
This is amazing both in the message and in the music.
blown away!! I hope you continue to create a community through creative education.
I would love to get involved with future projects!!
um hello!!!!!!!!!
where are the girls?
i guess its not tznuis even though bullying is more prevelent in girls…
The video and it’s message are beautiful Your job is to gather the kids and share this with them Explain to the very little ones that because the rebbe cared for the boy, the boy felt good and continued to learn his hardest EVEN THOUGH other people may have continued to bully him. When the boy was becoming a doctor his rebbe was so happy to see him and the boy was so happy to see his rebbe And hashgacha protis, when the rebbe was already a very old man and had a heart attack, the boy he saved was… Read more »
And a comment from hanhala like ” no other child has this issue. You need to help your child” that is a commmet that stems from being incompetent. When in school you as a teacher are responsible to be there socially, emotionally and acedimaclyy for each child. If you feel you are unable to do one of the three find another job or get a mentor.
Most teachers and Rabaaim do not know how to deal with the social element in a classroom. It’s more important than anything else. they need the skills to detect and notice social mishaps. They need to them be able to teach and foster positive interactions between students. Thats why Teachers SHOULD NOT have a break during recess and lunch – that’s exactly the time when social issues occur it’s a time for teachers to teach the students the tools for social success.
What do we expect from children when they see their parents are bullies?!
It’s this Lubavitch menatality “kill or be killed”. Our children are suffering in school and the principals themselves are bullies
Unfortunately the Rebbes in many of our schools bully the students perhaps bc they are overwhelmed with the burden of the class size and if the teachers bully so will the students.
Treating other people like they don’t exist is a form of bullying. Jumping a line, swiping a parking space, excluding someone from a public conversation, letting a door close in the face of someone behind you, not returning a phone call…
The Rebbi needed to get the kids who were bullying and teach them how to help the boy pick up his books and not to make fun of him