Marathon 2000 Photos Below!

 

Each year WFMU and JM in the AM hold a two-week fundraiser to enable the station and the program to remain on the air. WFMU is one of the few radio stations in the country to rely completely on listener support for all over the air costs.

2000 Marathon Prizes

For $18, you get:

The Year 2000 JM in the AM Bumper Sticker

For $36, you get all of the above, plus:

The Year 2000 JM in the AM T-shirt. 

 

For $54, you get all of the above, plus:

Around the Shabbos Table - 21 songs that teach the Shabbos Zemiros, available in (choose one) cassette or CD.

 

For $72, You Get All Of The Above Items That You've Checked, Plus:

The Top Ten Jewish Songs of the Nineties Cassette, as determined by the JM in the AM listeners.

For $118, You Get All Of The Above Items That You've Checked, Plus:

Your choice of a  JM in the AM embroidered hat, or a 2nd T-shirt.

 

 For $180, you get all of the above items that you've checked, plus: The Shlomo Carlebach Two Cassette Album.

Below you will find our daily marathon update. Don't forget to pledge. It is ONLY through your donations that the program remains on the air.

MONDAY 3/6 Daily total: $5,829
TUESDAY 3/7 Daily total: $7,171
WEDNESDAY 3/8 Daily total: $7,324
THURSDAY 3/9 Daily total: $8,701
FRIDAY 3/10 Daily total: $18,781
MONDAY 3/13 Daily total: $6,232
TUESDAY 3/14 Daily total: $16,309
WEDNESDAY 3/15 Daily total: $16,150
THURSDAY 3/16 Daily total: $23,361
FRIDAY 3/17 Daily total: $56,000
WRAP UP JM in the AM Marathon total: $165,000

If you have not YET pledged please click here for our pledge page.

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2000 Marathon Photo Array.

Photos by Mayer Fertig, Richie Berg, Mark Zomick et.al.

The Negina Orchestra

Mattes & Meir W. man the phone room.

Malcolm Hoenlein, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,  talks on the air while "Uber" Attorney David Seideman enjoys breakfast

New York City Councilman Noach Dear talks on the air while Menachem Lubinsky of Integrated Marketing looks on.

Buddy Strassman delivers Mattes birthday cake.

Mattes admiring the birthday cake.

Rabbi Chaim Hagler, Assistant Principal of the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy High School brought some of his students in to volunteer.

Mark Zomick and Main Event Caterer Extraordinaire Joey Bodner mug for the camera.

Jonathan Gellis and Meir Weingarten work the phones.

Pledge reader par-excellance Robert Katz.

Yisroel Williger

Shloimie Dachs

The incomparable Alfred "Buddy" Strassman

Super Volunteer Jerry Clark

Kol Achai's Boaz Golshmid and WWOR's Noah Gurock

Neshoma Orchestra's (l-r) Mo Shapiro, Dov Levine, Eli Kahn, and Jordan Hirsch

Mattes announces the final totals in a crowded studio (photo by Zalman Koppel)

Neshoma Orchestra's Mike Sojcher

Bris Avrohom's Rabbi Kanelsky

Jewish Music Star Avraham Fried

The famous Palm Pilot Pinny of Hoffy's Electronics in Brooklyn

New Springville Jewish Center's Rabbi Nate Segal looks on