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Another Hanukka Song


 

I started writing this on Dec 16, 2023 after Saturday Night Live reprised Adam Sandler's Hanukka song on the 7th night of Hanukka 2023. His song versions featured show biz people , a few sports stars, but legal eagles were notably absent.

My lyrics are not intended to denigrate anyone's religion, but just to join Sandler in celebrating the cultural aspects of Hanukka

I probably should add that there are 3 ways to be "Jewish" = (a) by ancestry, especially through maternal line (b) culturally, or (c) by religious belief (ranging from ultraorthodox to ultra-Reform or Reconstructionist). thus some who consider themselves "Jewish" are only so in (a) and/or (b) senses, being otherwise secular.

Another Hanukka Song

by Pam Green, copyright Dec 16, 2023

introduction by Adam Sandler, in 1994 on Saturday Night Live :
Chanukah is the festival of lights
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights
When you feel like the only kid in town without a Christmas tree
Here's a list of people who are Jewish just like you and me :

but now to update it with non show biz Jews :

Ruth Bader Ginsburg lights the Menorah
So does Elena Kagan
But not Sotomayor-ah

Louis D Brandeis, appointed by FDR as first SCOTUS Jew.
followed by Frankfurter , Cardozo , Goldberg and Breyer too

Abe Fortas resigned for his ethical boo-boo
(We've got a much worse gonif now, but he's not a Jew too)

(spoken) you don't need to be religious to enjoy Hanukka.


you don't even need to be culturally or ancestrally Jewish)

you don't need to wear a yamulka

to celebrate Hanukkah
don't need a funny hat
don't need a Bar or Bat

you can love the cultural traditions
without buying into the religious superstitions

like Cosmos' secular Carl Sagan
atheist like non-Jew Junior Reagan

so celebrate Hanukkah, but don't play a harmonica
unless you're Bobby Zimmerman, Nobel Prize winner,
come gather 'round people for my ham and mac-cheese dinner.

so celebrate Hanukkah, but don't drink gin and tonic-ka
or smoke legal marijuan-ica then drive your car in Santa Monica

celebrate Hanukkah without religious shlock
but you can spin the dreidle with Captain Kirk and Mr Spock.


RBG menorah

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