The Sony Ruvi was an analog video and still video camera released in 1998. The Ruvi was considerably smaller than any other camcorder available at the time, at 124 × 66 × 44.1 mm and 380g. This made the Ruvi small enough to keep inside a shirt pocket. Ruvi is an abbreviation of Recording Unit by Video.

The small size was achieved by making the tape essentially non-removable. A miniature "video cartridge" contained thirty minutes of Hi8 tape permanently loaded around a conventional helical scan record head. The head itself was part of the cartridge, negating the need for a loading mechanism. Although user-replaceable, the cartridge was intended to be a service part and not a form of removable media.

The Ruvi contained several features that were considered innovative at the time of its release. The camera had high-density electronics packaging and a color-reflective LCD screen. The Ruvi also featured mechanical linkages for zoom optics. It could record up to three hundred and fifty stills on the cartridge, each still being able to hold up to five seconds of audio, and a search function that would display them all in sequence. An "End Search" button automatically located the end of recorded material, readying the camera for new recordings.

Elazar Lipa Schmeltzer is an American Hasidic singer and composer. He is a headliner within Hasidic and Haredi communities worldwide and has been called "the Jewish Elvis". Schmeltzer has released 10 solo albums as of 2011. In 2008 he was named to the Forward 50 of most influential Jews.

Schmeltzer, a Skverer Hasid, grew up in the Hasidic enclave of New Square, New York, a village in Rockland County, New York. His grandfather, a Jewish farmer in pre-war Hungary, was killed during World War II, leaving his father, Reuven, an orphan at the age of 13. Reuven Schmeltzer was one of the 1684 Jews who escaped Nazi-controlled Hungary on the Kastner train and spent time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before being released in Switzerland. Lipa was the eleventh of 12 children born to his parents.

He married his wife Miriam on August 27, 1998. They have four children.

Though Schmeltzer had no formal musical training, after his marriage he began performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs in the Haredi Jewish communities of upstate New York and Brooklyn. He earned a reputation as a natural performer, and began releasing discs and videos. The first, Nor B'Simcha (Only Be Happy), was released shortly after his wedding. With his thick, round eyeglasses and sidelocks, "outlandish" outfits, and comical YouTube videos, he has rocketed to stardom in the Hasidic music world.

Gad Elbaz (in Hebrew גד אלבז) (born August 20, 1980) is an Israeli singer of Sephardic origin. He is best known by his #1 hit; Halayla Zeh Hazman (Tonight Is The Time), and for being the son of mizrahi singer Benny Elbaz.

Elbaz started his singing career at the age of 13. His first duet was with his Grandfather, Yecheskel; who himself was a renowned Mizrahi singer, when they sang Aba, Otcha Ani Ohev (Father, I Love You). At the age of 7, Gad's family became religiously observant. The first and most famous song written by his father, and sung by the two of them after they became observant, was Lo Kashe Lachzor B'Tshuva (It Isn't Hard To Become Observant). The song was an instant hit, and touched the lives of thousands of non-observant Israeli families.

As a child, he recorded four records with his father, and later, five more on his own. He was 16 when he put out his first solo effort called (Light at the End of the Tunnel). In 2005, he released Meanings, which sold close to 100,000 copies in Israel alone. His songs feature catchy tunes, appealing to both the observant crowd as well as the non-observant. In 2006, he released another album named Kimat Shaket כמעת שקט, (Almost Quiet). A new disc called Bein HaTipot, (Between The Drops), was released in 2008 and co-produced by Rudy Perez, who has written several songs for Christina Aguilera. One song already playing on Israeli radio; Olam Shel Yeladim (World For The Children), has become a huge hit.