Tomorrow evening begins the holiday.  Every night for 8 days. 

It’s a holiday I always loved.  Years ago I wrote a song for our group then, “Thin Lips,” and it went to “Panic Ensemble” at the end.  It’s here.

Let me see if I can show it to you:<p>

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okay – it didn’t work – so if you didn’t press the link, here it is again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mICPObYjkg

There are lots of other versions of this song, but nowhere does it explain that the song is about the book of Judith, the apocryphal story that is associated with Hanuka, about a woman who beheads the villain and saves the nation.   

So here is the text: 

They always do it

those Jewish women

promise you everything

then take their revenge

Wine and cheese

and all that teasing

and you can be sure

those Jewish widows

know how to please

its never easy

with Jewish women

take over their town

they cut off your head

lighting candles

eating doughnuts

cut off your head

then celebrate

and complain

about the filthy Assyrian head

rolling across

their clean clean floors