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Yid Vid: Obama’s Not the Only One Conjuring Washington and Lincoln

Barack Obama, as we all know by now, is quite fond of summoning up the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. That’s why it was such a surprise when the presidential predecessor Obama decided to invoke in his inaugural address was not “Honest Abe” but the fellow who (as lore has it) could not tell a lie…

Eighth Night Yid Vid: What Is This Hanukkah Thing All About?

So we’ve had seven nights of Hanukkah videos. We’ve watched singing cowboys, rapping Jewesses, will.i.am impersonators, melodious philosemitism, a comic spilling the beans on George Clooney, Adam Sandler dropping names, and Lipa Schmeltzer doing his thing. But, a viewer might fairly complain, we still don’t have any better sense of what this holiday is all…

Seventh Night Yid Vid: A Little Bit of Lipa

Ain’t no Hanukkah song like a Hanukkah song sung by Hasidic pop giant Lipa Schmeltzer (alas, it’s only a promo, so it gets cut off a little abruptly): Sure, Lipa may not top the pop charts like Hasidic reggae phenom Matisyahu. But Matisyahu isn’t nearly as much zany fun. (Exhibit A: Check Lipa out promoting…

Sixth Night Yid Vid: When the Zohan Named Names

Before “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” there was the “Chanukah Song”: And here’s his “Chanukah Song,” version 3.0: It should be noted that, while some maintain that the “Chanukah song” is the “single most important Jewish song of the past quarter-century,” Adam Sandler doesn’t necessarily bring academic precision to his song-writing.

Fifth Night Yid Vid: George Clooney vs. Richard Kind on the December Dilemma

Fourth Night Yid Vid: Very Jewish Christmas Wishes

Maybe she can get in touch with this guy, if and when he gets his Christmas wish: So all you want for Christmas is to be Jewish? No problem, my singing friend. While you wait, I’ll leave you with this to tide you over. You should know, however, that there is a counterargument. (The counter-argument…