Can i interest you in hanukkah video

The celebration helped Jews fit into American culture during the Christmas season, while maintaining their Jewish identity. My personal highlight is probably the potato pancakes reference, but there are plenty of gems in the lyrics. Here's the video, and you can read the lyrics below:. Jon: Can I interest you in Hanukkah? Maybe something in a festival of lights. Eight nights. Stephen: Hanukkah, huh? Jon: Well, you could do worse.

Stephen: Is it merry? Stephen: Is it cheery? Stephen: Is it jolly? Jon: On the 25th! Stephen: Of December? Jon: Kislev. Stephen: Which is when exactly? Jon: I will check. Stephen: Are there presents? Jon: Yes, indeed, eight days of presents, Which means one nice one, then a week of dreck. Stephen: Does Hanukkah commemorate events profound and holy? A king who came to save the world?

I'd tell him how much I appreciate hearing words from my mameloshen Yiddish on mainstream TV. Your question implies that he's done something incorrect. He's not intending to offer a teaching about the holiday. He's being funny and rhyming, and that's what he gets paid for. Frankly, I enjoy that a Jewish holiday is well-known, accepted, and "normal" enough to be chuckled over in the maintstream. Aviva , December 30, AM. Zev G , January 22, AM.

Yes, but it makes the lyric rhyme, which makes if funny. The video is meant to be humerous! I think everyone needs to have a sense of humor when they watch this. Having a sense of humor isn't forbidden by the Torah! Stephen Cobert is funny. The video is funny. The laugh here, from start-to-finish, is about the many ways Channuka is inferior to Christmas.

It is about the many insecure thoughts and feelings of uneducated Jews when Christmas lights give them that warm, fuzzy Hellenized-Jewish feeling during the holiday season.

The Greeks did not want to wipe out the Jews. They wanted to Hellenize them, make them feel Torah is second-rate to the bright lights of Athens. Channuka is about cleaning the Temple in our heart and mind of images like the ones in this video.

It is about understanding why the smallest spark of Torah can do more to light up spiritual darkness than any other light in the world. You did it right, there is no reason to try to compete. If we try to compete with Xmas we will only lose for ourselves the meaning of Hanukkah. Then what, Charlie Brown will have to make a film, "Charlie Brown Hanukkah" and put it out there, "What's the true meaning of Hanukkah? Let's not go there, and we won't have to be brought back by Charlie Brown.

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Share this video. Had me laughing all the way through. In fact it was hilarious. Thanks for sharing;. Anonymous , November 30, AM satire. Chanukkah isn't Yom Tov. Aviva , December 30, AM Kudos.