Hillel, who hailed from Haifa, Israel, was in a rock band called Anthym: him on guitar, my sixth-grade classmate Jack Irons on drums, Todd Strassman on bass, and Alan Moschulski on guitar and vocals. Hillel was occasionally the lead vocalist too, but even though his soulful and arty guitar styling rocked righteously, he was a terrible singer. Almost as bad as me, and I’m awful.
