Singer and songwriter Assaf Amdorsky, a judge on the reality show "The Next Star," said in an interview he gave to Danny Kushmaro on "News 12" that he is careful not to work or perform on Saturdays.
""I don't work on Saturday, that's important to me," he clarifies.
For God's sake or for 'I want one quiet day' reasons? The interviewer asks.
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""I'm Jewish, there are many shades of Jews, so me too.".
In an interview 6 years ago with Ami Friedman on Ynet. He spoke about his growing interest in Judaism. "I believe that this is a process that everyone does in their own time, whether for intellectual reasons or spiritual reasons or practical reasons. The path leads you there, or age or parenthood or those close to you.
""I'm not ashamed to roll up my sleeves, open a book and see what it says, because I don't know. I come from a home that is very anti-Jewish and I don't accept what the generation before me or two generations before me did. It was important to them to eradicate any Jewishness because it was almost against Zionism. On this issue, I have some doubts, and I say - what was true for our parents, may not be so true for us, and it's better to just know what it says first, and then choose how you want to live.
""I'm ashamed to say that I don't know the Torah. I want to know more. It's important to me both as a creator and as a writer, and as a person who deals with Hebrew. It's the source of Hebrew. Not knowing the sources is simply being disconnected from any context.".
