Alan's Choices

is a collaborative project headed by
Alan Cohen, Steven Cohen and Hana Werner.
Its aim, in the aftermath of the horrific happenings in
Israel, October 7^th is to:

• gather together music that tells a story that words cannot.
• create narrated "journeys" that bind music selections together in a revealing context
• English narration. Hebrew lyrics. English subtitles.

Click on a "journey" to watch it.

• Journey #1
  • Released: May 2024
  • Run-time: about 20 minutes
  • Host: Alan Cohen
  • Defiance without hatred and no guarantees
  1. לא תנצחו אותי You cannot defeat me
  2. medley
  1. מי שברך צהל Prayer for IDF
  2. לא תנצחו אותי You cannot defeat me
  3. ארץ צבי Land of deer (Israel)
  4. מעוז צור (Hanukah)
  3. ראם מאיר Ram Meir
  4. Eitan's return from 100 days
• Journey #2 SORRY! THIS VIDEO IS BEING REVISED
  • Released: June 2024
  • Run-time: about 20 minutes
  • Host: Hana Werner
  • Bring them home. Bring us home too.
  1. הביתה Homeland Concert
  2. מלקטתּּ כוכבום Gathering Stars
  3. אם מחר אני מת If tomorrow I die
  4. אומה של גיבורי על A nation of super-heros!
• Journey #3
  • Released: July 2024
  • Run-time: about 20 minutes
  • Host: Ala Gamulka
  • Hope evolving
  1. אין לי ארץ אחרת I Have No Other Land
  2. װוּ אַהין זאָל איך גײן (Yiddish & English) Where can I go?
  3. מלאכים במדים Angels in Uniform
  4. התקוה Hatikvah
• Journey #4
  • Released: December 2024
  • Run-time: about 26 minutes
  • Host: Shirley Schildkraut
  • It's OK but it's not OK.
  1. לוּ יְהִי May It Be So
  2. Rabbi Doron Perez - spoken at Mizrachi Simchat Torah Presentation, Jerusalem
  3. וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה לַאֲבוֹתֵיֽנוּ וְלָנֽוּ And this has stood us and our fathers
  4. October Rain
  5. יַחַד - כָּל הַדֶּרֶךְ Together - All the Way
• Journey #5
  • Released: March 2025
  • Run-time: about 29 minutes
  • Host: Ralph Wintrob
  • Time Travel
  1. לא תנצחו אותי You Cannot Defeat me
  2. אַחֵינו Acheinu
  3. A BarKochba Story
  4. סוף טוב Happy Endings
  5. לָצֵאת מִדִּיכָּאוֹן Getting Out Of Depression

We really want to hear from you.
• Do you like what we're doing?
• Do you know of a song that belongs here?