i'm rabbi eric weiss. and honored to be your host this morning. the arts in our world are a way for us to communicate with one another and enrich our lives. we are thrilled this morning to have presented as from the contemporary jewish museum and the 29th jewish music festival. we want to welcome james leventhal. and police siegel. welcome to mosaic. >> let's jump in. tell us what is new at the contemporary jewish museum. >> there is so much. let's start with the exhibitions. my job is to talk about what we have on the walls. we recently opened an incredible exhibition of an entire 48 pages of eliminated arts. created by arthur shake in the 1930s. it is able to tell the stories of the israelites, as well as sound an alarm for what was happening in europe at the time in the rise of not see of them -- do not see if -- across the land. >> how would you explain the world, hagada. >> it is the book used during the passover, which is the ritual dinner that is held one time a year -- passover is eight days. but i

. >> and in the role of the saw-wielding carpenter, they hire an actual carpenter, eric weiss. >> ericpenter who put an addition onto my own home. >> he basically asked me if i would be interested in doing this viral video to promote this video. i thought, yeah, sure, what the heck, you know. >> on the day of the shoot, michael and james painstakingly recreate a street scene in a not so busy part of the city. this gather early in the morning to stay under the radar. >> not one person can see us do this. because once that video leaks, this ewould know it was a hoax. >> in another effort to make it look real, michael shoots the scene using his iphone from the back seat of the cab. but it isn't easy. >> timing was a critical issue. we had to rehearse it many times. >> and action! >> on the first take, they encounter a serious setback. >> it actually took too long to cut through the post. i cut through the post most of the way, so when we did the cut, it just took a few seconds. >> now it takes half the time to tear through the pipe. the cast and crew nailed the shot. >> ah! that's it. tha