Imagine a hassidic-Woodstock-jazz-flamenco rock-and-roll festival of belief and love featuring ecstatic bearded men and you will come close to what went down in Nachlaot Saturday evening.
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The aptly named Kobi Fringe, an organizer of the Regalim Festival at Nachlaot, called it an event of "like, free love" – in the sense of "music, Sukkot, food, dancing, happy." The sounds emanating from the stage ranged in style from Crosby Stills and Nash to Kool and the Gang to completely indescribable improvisations dedicated to Abraham the Forefather and Rabbi Nachman of Breslav, among others.
Musician Yehuda Glantz, another organizer, said the festival is intended to bring together the young and old people living in the unique area of Nachlaot.
Osher, a Nachlaot resident, told Yoni Kempinski, host of Israeli Salad in the Sukkah, that it is very difficult to find a festival like this one, which is "all improvisation."