There were two new versions of Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song this year, one by pop band Haim and one by Israeli rappers Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz.

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- HAIM (@HAIMtheband) December 3, 2021

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As a reminder, my critique of Sandler's song from a couple years ago:

Certainly, it's not melodically very good, but ( Read more... )

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Happy Chanukah!

I have days off to be taken by the end of the year, so I took off Friday even though taking off for Chanukah isn't really a thing. I drove up to go see my sister (outdoors, masked and distanced) and dropped off Chanukah gifts for my nieces. We hadn't seen each other in person since shortly pre-pandemic and I hadn't met my younger ( Read more... )

More playlists, I promise I will get to the people I still haven't made one for yet. Eventually.

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My email tells me that Frank London and Jon Madof just released a recording of Kol Nidre (three repetitions) and I won't be able to listen to it until tonight and I cannot wait. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/355984.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
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New song release for the season, that I've been listening to a lot the past couple days. I don't know if it'll have the same kick if you're not familiar with the Yom Kippur liturgy, but wow does it hit me. It's based on the passage in the Yom Kippur Mussaf where the High Priest's worship service on Yom Kippur in the Temple is described, and it ( Read more... )

I have eight to ten hours of highway driving ahead of me this weekend as I travel to and from Hunt. Some fraction of that will be listening to daf yomi podcasts. For the rest I'd like to listen to some new music ( Read more... )

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This gives me so much joy, though I'm a little sad I didn't learn it was happening until a year later. Atom mostly stopped touring when I was in high school, but his music still means a lot to me, and it's so evident watching the crowd that I'm not alone in feeling that. It's an audience heterogeneously mixed between people who know every single ( Read more... )