Arts and Faith: Trend: Songs, danceable, for the Festival of Lights (Hanukka)

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Young hip Jews leading 


a Hanukkah music makeover



Washington, DC — Put on your boogie shoes —the new Hanukkah songs are here! 


What last year seemed like a happy coincidence has become a hip new Hanukkah tradition: groups of harmonizing young Jews releasing seriously Jewish, yet seriously danceable, songs for the Festival of Lights, which begins at sundown on 20 December.  The Maccabeats, who scored more than six million hits on YouTube last year with a song about flipping potato latkes (pancakes), a traditional Hanukkah food, are back this year with a boppy reggae tune, Religion News Service reports. "Miracle" explores the spiritual meaning of Hanukkah, which commemorates the successful revolt led by Judah Maccabee against an ancient king who tried to quash Judaism. 


— Ecumenical News International