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The parody of all parodies! “Chanukah: Rock of Ages” is a parody of Jewish holiday parody songs that have become so popular. It tells the Chanukah story in 8 hit songs, capturing the history of contemporary music and dance.

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Credits

Directed by
Shoot East

http://shooteast.com

Music Production by
Mitch Clyman
Muso Productions Ltd.

http://musoproductions.com

Lyrics by
Lenny Solomon

Vocals by
Chanan Elias
Mitch Clyman

Choreography by
Street Art Production

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Singer
Chanan Elias

Dancers
Moshe Avrahami
Oleg Davidoff
Effy Epshtein
Alex Kim
Vlad Menzon
Nissan Metayev
Dean Partush
Dvir Rozen
Sergey Shteiman

Special Thanks to
Joshua Landes
Kosher Delight

Line Producer
Renana Levine

Director of Photography
Jonathan Amerikaner

Set and Costume Designer
Eli Kaplan-Wildmann

http://kaplanwildmann.com

Assistant Director
Miriam Ani

Cameramen
Josh Gold
Ben Katz
Brian Spector
Aviv Vana
Yirmiyahu Vann

Gaffer
Raphael Kadishzon

Assistant Gaffer
Noam Bercovich

Makeup
Einav Shalom

Studio Facilities Provided by
Pie Productions

Pie Productions Studio Manager
Carmior Tsubara

Pie Productions Set Construction
Yaakov Blumantal

Construction Assistant
Tzvika Vardi

Production Assistants
Tsippora Ani
Miri Kaiser
Shantal Reich

Motorcycle Provided by
Stewart Gopstein
CEO, Harley Davidson Israel

Wigs Provided by

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With thanks to Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, Steppenwolf, the Bee Gees, Journey, MC Hammer, Sasha Baron Cohen & Maroon 5

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Jewish religious practice in America is quite varied. Among the 4.3 million American Jews described as “strongly connected” to Judaism, over 80% report some sort of active engagement with Judaism, ranging from attendance at daily prayer services on one end of the spectrum to as little as attendance Passover Seders or lighting Hanukkah candles on the other.

A 2003 Harris Poll found that 16% of American Jews go to the synagogue at least once a month, 42% go less frequently but at least once a year, and 42% go less frequently than once a year.

About one-sixth of American Jews maintain kosher dietary standards.

The survey found that of the 4.3 million strongly connected Jews, 46% belong to a synagogue. Among those households who belong to a synagogue, 38% are members of Reform synagogues, 33% Conservative, 22% Orthodox, 2% Reconstructionist, and 5% other types. Traditionally, Sephardic and Mizrahis do not have different branches (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, etc.) but usually remain observant and religious. The survey discovered that Jews in the Northeast and Midwest are generally more observant than Jews in the South or West. Reflecting a trend also observed among other religious groups, Jews in the Northwestern United States are typically the least observant.

In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend of secular American Jews returning to a more observant, in most cases, Orthodox, lifestyle. Such Jews are called baalei teshuva (“returners”, see also Repentance in Judaism). It is uncertain how widespread or demographically important this movement is at present.

The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey found that around 3.4 million American Jews call themselves religious — out of a general Jewish population of about 5.4 million. The number of Jews who identify themselves as only culturally Jewish has risen from 20% in 1990 to 37% last year, according to the study. In the same period, the number of all US adults who said they had no religion rose from 8% to 15%. Jews are more likely to be secular than Americans in general, the researchers said. About half of all US Jews — including those who consider themselves religiously observant — claim in the survey that they have a secular worldview and see no contradiction between that outlook and their faith, according to the study’s authors. Researchers attribute the trends among American Jews to the high rate of intermarriage and “disaffection from Judaism” in the United States.

American Jews are more likely to be atheist or agnostic than most Americans, especially so compared with Protestants or Catholics. A 2003 poll found that while 79% of Americans believe in God, only 48% of American Jews do, compared with 79% and 90% for Catholics and Protestants respectively. While 66% of Americans said they were “absolutely certain” of God’s existence, 24% of American Jews said the same. And though 9 percent of Americans believe there is no God (8% Catholic and 4% Protestant), 19 percent of American Jews believe God does not exist.

The great majority of school-age Jewish students attend public schools, although Jewish day schools and yeshivas are to be found throughout the country. Jewish cultural studies and Hebrew language instruction is also commonly offered at synagogues in the form of supplementary Hebrew schools or Sunday schools.

Until the 1950s, a quota system at elite colleges and universities limited the number of Jewish students. Before 1945, only a few Jewish professors were permitted as instructors at elite universities. In 1941, antisemitism drove Milton Friedman from a non-tenured assistant professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Harry Levin became the first Jewish full professor in the Harvard English department in 1943, but the Economics department decided not to hire Paul Samuelson in 1948. Harvard hired its first Jewish biochemists in 1954. A third of the total student body at Harvard is now Jewish-American.

Today, American Jews no longer face the discrimination in higher education that they did in the past, particularly in the Ivy League. For example, by 1986, a third of the presidents of the elite undergraduate clubs at Harvard were Jewish. Rick Levin has been president of Yale University since 1993, Judith Rodin was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 2004 (and is currently president of Rockefeller University), and Paul Samuelson’s nephew, Lawrence Summers, was president of Harvard University from 2001 until 2006.

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Rabbi Pinson shares insight into the month of awe. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the quintessential Jewish Holidays, are a time of growth and renewal.

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The next in a weekly series of 10 minute topics teaching about various topics within Judaism. This week’s topic is: Modern Sects of Judaism.

Orthodox Judaism (also known as Traditional Judaism) is the oldest sect of Judaism – and in fact, was the only sect until Reform Judaism came into being in 19th century Germany.

Conservative Judaism grew out of the tension between Orthodoxy and Reform. It was formally organized as the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism by Dr. Solomon Schechter in 1913, although its roots in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America stretch back into the 1880s.

Reform Judaism can trace its origins back to the thoughts of Leopold Zunz who suggested that Jews study their history and learn of the great achievements of the past. While Zunz was implementing his ideas, a movement began to make religious services better understood, by incorporating music and the local language.

Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Jewish movement based on the ideas of Mordecai Kaplan. The movement views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. It originated as the radical left branch of Conservative Judaism before it splintered.

Sources:
Orthodox Judaism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism)

Conservative Judaism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Judaism)

The Origins of Reform Judaism (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/The_Origins_of_Reform_Judaism.html)

Reform Judaism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Judaism_(North_America))

Reconstructionist Judaism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructionist_Judaism)

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Jackie Mason declares, ‘Love, brotherhood should reign around the world’

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Jewish New Year and Muslim Ramadam begin on same day.

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Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, literally, “head of the year” or “first of the year.” Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. This name is somewhat deceptive, because there is little similarity between Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest days of the year.

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The Sabbath (or Shabbat, as it is called in Hebrew) is one of the best known and least understood of all Jewish observances. People who do not observe Shabbat think of it as a day filled with stifling restrictions, or as a day of prayer like the Christian Sabbath. But to those who observe Shabbat, it is a precious gift from G-d, a day of great joy eagerly awaited throughout the week, a time when we can set aside all of our weekday concerns and devote ourselves to higher pursuits. In Jewish literature, poetry and music, Shabbat is described as a bride or queen, as in the popular Shabbat hymn Lecha Dodi Likrat Kallah (come, my beloved, to meet the [Sabbath] bride). It is said “more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept Israel.”

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Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of re-dedication, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.

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