All posts tagged as: Chanukah
Girls In Trouble: “Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah”
The Hanukkah videos continue this week with a rendition of ”Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah” by Girls In Trouble.
Girls In Trouble’s debut CD is available in the JDub store.
The Wailing Wall Goes Country for Hanukkah
Jesse from The Wailing Wall recorded this cover of “Remember Me (When The Candle Lights Are Gleaming)” for Hanukkah. (Get it? Candles and Hanukkah) The song has also been recorded by Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan among others.
Happy Hanukkah from The Wailing Wall - On Saw!
Sure you’ve heard “Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah” before, but have you ever heard it played on the saw? Jesse from The Wailing Wall brings a new twist to this traditional tune.
This week all purchases from the JDub store come with a free download of The Wailing Wall’s debut LP.
Happy Hanukkah from DeLeon
Hanukkah Gone Metal
Winter brings metal to mind. We’re a little bit angry, it’s cold, Sweden is also cold, and filled with black metal goth kids who have impeccable manners and delicious chocolates - you get my train of thought. Anyhoozle, last year we told you about The Schleps - who crushed it in 37 seconds flat with their hardcore version of Maoz Tzur. And now, in the spirit of a loud and heavy Hanukkah, we have Gods of Fire with Hanukkah Gone Metal. It’s skews toward The Darkness/hair-bandism, but the iMovie-made video is fine tribute to a monster we helped create (sorry!). Thanks for the shtick tip Metal Jew.
Jews in the Gymnasium
What if Judah Maccabee was a young, gay boy thrilled by sexy Greeks wrestling in the gymnasiums of Jerusalem?
If you missed it the first go round, luckily for you, Six Points Fellow Dan Fishback’s You Will Experience Silence Mr. & Mrs. Smith on dvd , is back for an encore! Check out the critical acclaim and press coverage here
. This witty and often neurotic play cleverly recasts the Chanukkah story with Judah Maccabee as a gay teenager, and interweaves it with a modern-day activist’s struggle. The insightful and humorous piece is a meditation on citizenship, imperialism, and sexual ethics.
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American Idol Bingo
Ok folks…the title is pretty self-explanatory on this one. In keeping with my continued fascination with AI’s front-runner, MOT Adam Lambert (or “glambert” as many other bloggers affectionately call him), I thought we would participate with two favorite Jewish pastimes: drinking and gambling.
Underdog Millionaire?
Today, we’re all about rooting for the underdog. Human interest stories, the people that shock and surprise us, display hidden talents and defy our communal stereotypes and expectations–those are the people we are most fascinated by and for whom we become cheerleaders. A perfect example? Susan Boyle. Although Simon seems to find a soft spot in his heart for judging his own people on Britain’s Got Talent, even he was rolling his eyes, raising his eyebrows and silently ridiculing Susan Boyle when she stepped on stage. The 47 year old, frumpy looking woman from “a collection of villages” looked laughable to him. And clearly to the rest of the audience as well. But then she opened her mouth to sing…..and shattered every pre-conceived notion floating around in Simon’s sarcastic little head
Jews. Underdogs.
These two words have historically been near synonyms for one another. Jews have never been much for dancing a victory lap or crushing a hapless opponent, but have rather been relegated, time and time again, to underdog status. (This is my husband’s rationale for why he believes that it’s unJewish to root for the New York Yankees.) Look at almost any chapter from Jewish history–the small band of Maccabees against the Greek Assyrians (Chanukah), Esther and her sackcloth-and-ashes wearing followers in Shushan (Purim), the Jews of Eastern Europe at ANY time, including the present–and you will discover a people destined to be eternal underdogs that were not supposed to survive, much less flourish. It’s just not part of our cultural DNA.
Which makes it all the more satisfying when one of our own (Adam Lambert!) is the odds-on-favorite to win the Holy Grail of televised singing competitions (mixed metaphor intended).