The following is a listing of some media outlets that have covered Aviad Cohen, his testimony coming to know Yeshua Messiah/Jesus Christ and his music as well as his earlier career as Jewish Heeb-Hop Rapper, 50 Shekel.
Television
ARTE's Kultur (Germany)
ARTE's Metropolis (Germany)
Daystar's Denver Celebration
Google Current
ESPN2's Cold Pizza
Media Television (Canada)
Sid Roth's It's Supernatural
TBN's Praise The Lord w/ Carman
VH1's "So Jewtastic"
Vision TV (Canada)
YES "Super Jews" (Israel)
Magazine
American Jewish Life
Big Shot
Esquire
Israel Today
Maxim's Blender
Menorah (Sweden)
Neon Magazine (Germany)
Neues LeBen (Germany)
New York Magazine
Ordet Og Israel (Denmark)
Q Magazine (UK)
Relevant
Time Out
Tro & Mission (Denmark)
V Magazine
Wall Street Journal
Xtra Large (Israel)
Newspaper
Forward
Herald Tribune
LA Weekly
Maariv (Israel)
Magazinet (Norway)
Newsday
New York Post
NY Blueprint
Salt Lake Tribune
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Albany Baptist
The Baptist Message
The Birmingham News
The Christian Index
The Jerusalem Post
The Messianic Times
The New York Times
The Village Voice
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
Udfordringen (Denmark)
Online
AOL Entertainment News
ABC Entertainment News
BBC
Beliefnet
Birthright Israel
CBN Music
Christian Music Wired
Christianity Today
CM Wired
Fox News
GQ
Idea Online (Germany)
Jesus.ch (Germany)
Livenet.ch (Switzerland)
Media Bistro's Fishbowl
Netscape News with CNN
Religion Journal
Reuters Online (UK)
The Globe And Mail
The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
Top Chretien (France)
Totally Jewish (UK)
VH1's Best Week Ever
Ynet News (Israel)
Radio
90.7 Syn (Australia)
102 FM Tel Aviv (Israel)
104.7 FM South Florida Radio
AM 91 The Point of Faith
ARD (Germany)
Ekko Kommunication (Denmark)
Eminem's Shade 45 on Sirius Radio
John Safran's Sunday Night Safran
Rado Kol Ha Lev
Resonance 104.4 FM "The Something Jewish Show" (UK)
Sid Roth's Messianic Vision
Talk Radio 1600 WAAM, Michigan’s “The Bottom Line Show” with Brian Farrar
WFM Israel Radio (Israel)
WRCI 102.7 FM Rochester, NY "Bagels and Blessings"
WYUR Yeshiva University Radio
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Press Quotes
Aviad "50 Shekel" awarded with #1 Most Remarkable Thing In Culture for Best Jewish Rap Lyrics (In Da Shul)
Esquire Magazine
"50 Shekel caused huge controversy in the Heeb Hop world as he has now become a Jew for Jesus."
Conor Knighton, GoogleVideo
"Nearly two years after it was labeled anti-Semitic (before it even came out), The Passion of the Christ might actually be converting Jews to Jesus. Take rapper 50 Shekel, who found notoriety with “In Da Shul,” a moderately clever parody of a 50 Cent hip-hop track (the Washington Post featured Shekel in a piece about being “Young, Jewish and . . . Cool”). He recently announced that he has found Jesus—inspired by the movie, which he calls “the most Jewish film ever made."
Shana Liebman, New York Magazine
"Naturally, he’s been the target of attacks by the Jewish community-hip-hop and otherwise-who see Cohen as a traitor, and have made no bones about it on message boards, in the Jewish press, and even through some minor property damage to Cohen’s Los Angeles-area home. This hasn’t stopped him from being something of a sh#t–stirrer."
Zel McCarthy, Big Shot Magazine
"At times it becomes preachy, the conversion-bias of J4J showing. Other times, though, it’s a gospel hip-hop album following in the heavy footsteps of DMX. His autobiographical tracks (“Hooked on the Truth”) feel as raw and pained as an exposed nerve. He’s a world away from his 50 Cent parody persona. It’s a shame he had to leave traditional Judaism to do it."
Mordechai Shinefield, American Jewish Life Magazine
"That brotha is cool. You know he's from somewhere back east. I'm tellin' ya. New Jersey, New York, we're gonna dig. He's got an album out called Hooked On The Truth. He's kind of like an online sensation."
Carman, host of TBN's "Praise The Lord" Television
"When it comes to thinking outside the box, look first to Aviad Cohen. He first achieved notoriety in 2003 under the pseudonym of 50 Shekel, billed as “The Heeb- Hop Rapper.” Aviad came to faith in Yeshua in 2004 and eventually dropped the 50 Shekel moniker."
Chad Elliot, The Messianic Times
"HEEB HOP: Forget 50 Cent and Ja Rule - the latest artists causing a stir in the hip hop world are Jewish rappers who pay homage to their religion and ethnicity. Groups such as 50 Shekel..."
GQ.com
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