Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights, begins Wednesday after sundown. As coffee shops and shopping malls pump our aural pipes full of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Jewish Americans are once more faced with a winter of musical despair: Where is the Hanukkah music?
Hasidic reggae musician Matisyahu offers up a theory over at NPR: Jewish American singer-songwriters have been too busy writing Christmas carols:
"White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Silver Bells" and "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting)" were all written by Jews. Both Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand have their own Christmas albums. The No. 1 bestselling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G.
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