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This is from Erran Baron Cohen’s new CD “Songs in the Key of Hanukkah.”

You can buy this song instantly from iTunes. It’s called Dreidel (link).

If you prefer your music in a more tangible form, you can buy the CD from Amazon (link).

Tonight is the first night of חנוכה. We are aware that there seems to be much disagreement among English speakers about how to spell the name of this holiday. Though we aren’t usually averse to controversy, we decided to avoid the question of how it’s spelled by using the Hebrew spelling. (We aver that our preference for “Chanukah” over “Hanukkah.”)

In any event, in honor of the holiday we’d like to share this video, the audio-portion of which is sung by Tom Lehrer. Enjoy!

This heartbreaking video shows 2-year-old Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were murdered by Muslim terrorists in Mumbai.

This video was filmed at a memorial service the day after the murders.

He’s crying out “Ima” — Hebrew for Mommy.

From Haaretz:

After Olmert updated Bush on Israel’s indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the U.S. president demanded, “Why do you want to give Assad the Golan for nothing?” the sources said. 

“It’s not for nothing,” Olmert insisted. “It’s in exchange for a change in the region’s strategic alignment.” 

Bush persisted: “Why should you believe him?” And to that, Olmert did not reply. 

Shlomo the reindeer…

Full story in the Jerusalem Post.

Fundamentally Freund: More than just Sabbath Jews | Columnists | Jerusalem Post .

Remnants of Jewish immigrant colony in Utah show experiment gone awry (with multimedia) – Salt Lake Tribune.

AFP: Iraqi MP reinstated after visit to Israel: aide.