The 'other' Yeshiva University acapella group gains success with new YouTube video.
Carly Stern for The Jewish Week
Swarms of crowds hurriedly shuffle amidst the bright lights of Times Square. Energetic young children bounce up and down and wave their hands rapidly as if answering an urgent question in class. And, in between it all, a group of 11 college-age, kippa-clad young men in crisp white shirts and matching pink ties belt out a rendition of the Gad Elbaz hit, “Hashem Melech.”
This isn’t any average street performance. It is the setting of the hit music video by the Yeshiva University-associated a capella group, the “Ystuds,” that has generated over 90,000 YouTube views in less than a month.
“Our friends and families are really excited about it,” said second-year group member Jonathan Green, who joined after transferring to YU from the University of Toronto. “They sometimes are more on top of the view count than I am.”
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