“I’ll Be Your Mirror” — Reflections on Lou Reed
From wandering Israelites to rock and roll excess, one author reflects on Lou Reed - the mirror to us all.
Aryeh Bernstein, a Jerusalem resident and Chicago native, is a Torah educator who has taught at Mechon Hadar, Drisha, Yeshivat Talpiot, Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, the Hartman High School, and elsewhere, and is an Editor-at-Large at Jewschool [dot] com. In 2011, under the moniker "The Branding Iron", he independently released his debut hip-hop album, "A Roomful of Ottomans", with DJ OFn TISh (aka Ori Salzberg)