Leor dimant jewish community
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Each holiday season in the U.S., Christmas cheer fills shopping centers and radio airwaves like an avalanche of fake snow. Growing up Jewish in this environment, one of my few respites from the stampede of Santas was Adam Sandler’s goofy ditty “The Chanukah Song.” His lyrics don’t deal so much with the cliched trappings of Hanukkah—menorahs, chocolate gelt, dreidels, the fist-size sugar-caked jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot—as with who might be celebrating it. It was that list of fellow Jews, whether yoked together puckishly (“Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too / Put them together, what a fine-lookin’ Jew”) or crammed awkwardly into lines too short for their syllables (“The owner of the Seattle Supersonicahs / Celebrates Hanukkah”), that helped me feel less strange about the absence of a fir tree hung with glass balls in my living room.
When Sandler debuted “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994, he explained, “When I was a kid this time of year always made me feel a little left out because in school there were so many Christmas songs and all us Jewish kids had was the song ‘Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel.'” That’s obviously an exaggeration—the eq
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House of Pain
American hip hop group
This article is about the hip hop group. For other uses, see House of Pain (disambiguation).
House of Pain was an American hip hop trio that released three albums in the 1990s. The group consisted of DJ Lethal, Danny Boy, and Everlast. They are best known for their 1992 hit single "Jump Around", which reached number 3 in their native United States of America, number 6 in Ireland and number 8 in the United Kingdom. The group broke up in 1996.
Lead rapper Everlast went on to pursue a solo career as a blues rock artist and member of the supergroupLa Coka Nostra which also featured DJ Lethal. DJ Lethal would later join and find commercial success with the rap rock band Limp Bizkit. House of Pain reunited briefly in 2010 for a world tour.
The group's name is a reference to the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr Moreau, a reference carried further by the naming of their 2011 tour He Who Breaks the Law; however, they initially became aware of the phrase via the Oingo Boingo song "No Spill Blood", of which they were fans.
Band history
[edit]1990–1992: Formation and breakthrough
[edit]In 1990, Daniel O'Connor (Danny Boy O'Connor) got together with fellow rapper Erik Schrody (Everlast) who had just released a rap album called F
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