

But we’re really home there is no other place,” Loeb said. Normally I wouldn’t be home every Friday night. “Because I’m not traveling as much, I see the cycles of the week. Hershkovitz is the vice president of Capitol Studios and Digital Studios Universal Music Group. Today, Loeb, her husband Roey Hershkovitz, 41, (whose family stems from Israel), and children Lyla, 10, and Emet, 8, embrace a meaningful Jewish lifestyle - something that flourished as a result of COVID-19. The rabbi really explained the prayers and the history, and the essence behind the holidays and how they are connected, and he just kept going deeper and deeper and deeper, with these same prayers that I had said my whole life. “I didn’t realize that services went on all day - I hadn’t really ever done that before,” Loeb said. It wasn’t until her early 30s that everything changed for Loeb, when she happened upon a Rosh Hashanah service at Ohr HaTorah synagogue in Los Angeles led by Rabbi Mordecai Finley. Not that I didn’t want to be Jewish I wasn’t quite feeling a connection to it personally… I hadn’t really locked in with the deep meaning.” Yet Loeb felt “a lot of guilt associated with being Jewish. We did all the highlights of the Jewish culture and traditions.” And we went to religious school every week and were all bar and bat-mitzvahed in my family. “Hanukkah was a main one for us,” she said, “even though I know it’s not traditionally one of the main holidays. Lisa Loeb poses in the press room with the best children’s album award for ‘Feel What U Feel’ at the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018, in New York. “When you come against things that are difficult, sometimes the best approach is just to accept them and buck up, get strong and move on.” “Maybe women were in a different place than men and maybe they weren’t always equal on paper, but I think sometimes they were often very powerful and in charge,” she said. “The song was originally inspired by a picture of my grandmother and some of her cousins - it might be her friends - back in the early 1900s, and they’re having such a great time,” Loeb said. But perhaps most poignant is “For the Birch,” inspired by two powerful women. In the song “This is My Life,” Loeb reflects, “Maybe I should take some time and practice staring at the wall.” The official music video for “Another Day” features the musician doing tedious housework, a nod to life’s occasional monotony. Being in the moment is a theme that permeates many of the 11 original tracks in “A Simple Trick to Happiness,” which Loeb co-wrote with Rich Jacques.
