The Washington Post

THE KLEZMATICS "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" Jewish Music "Wonder Wheel" Jewish Music SUSAN MCKEOWN "Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs" World Village

"Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah" Jewish Music "Wonder Wheel" Jewish Music SUSAN MCKEOWN "Blackthorn: Irish Love Songs" World Village THE KLEZMATICS HAVE EMERGED as the most interesting of the ...
American Songwriter

The Story Behind Adam Sandler’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Holiday Classic “The Chanukah Song” and its Three Revamps (1999-2015)

"There were so many Christmas songs and all us Jewish kids had was a song 'Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel'," said Sandler on 'SNL' in 1994.
Post and Courier

Aiken's Adath Yeshurun Synagogue celebrates Hanukkah with traditional songs, food

The lyrics of a traditional song — "Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah" — rang through the basement of Aiken's Adath Yeshurun Synagogue Dec. 29 as the congregation marked the fifth night of the Jewish festival of ...
The Forward

Promising ‘no stupid Hanukkah songs,’ The Leevees strive for a ‘two-sauce solution’

Near the end of the last century, Dec. 3, 1994, many folks got their first exposure to Hanukkah music via Adam Sandler’s “Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live. Was that, perhaps, the impetus for the ...