Happy Hanukkah… Mormon style
On this, the first night of Hanukkah, we are pleased to present you with a delightful dose of Mormon senatorial spirituality. As The New York Times put it:
“The canon of Hanukkah songs written by Mormon senators from Utah just got a little bigger.”
(Click HERE for the article.)
Indeed, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the solemn-faced Republican, has penned a catchy holiday tune: “Eight Days of Hanukkah.” Read the story on how this came to be.
CHECK THE VIDEO: “Eight Days of Hanukkah”
Well, perhaps he’s on to something. As Michael Feinstein writes in his New York Times Op-Ed:
“We live in a multicultural time and the mixing, and mixing up, of traditions is an inevitable result. Hence we have the almost century-old custom of American Jews creating a lot more Christmas music than Hanukkah music.”
