Republican Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah penned a new Hanukkah song at the request of his friend, Tablet writer Jeffrey Goldberg.
Hatch, who is Mormon, had previously penned a number of Christmas songs.
Best quote: “I have always felt that the song canon for Hanukkah, a particularly interesting historical holiday, is sparse and uninspiring, in part because Jewish songwriters spend so much time writing Christmas music,” writes Goldberg.
It’s true: Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas”, “Rudolph” was by Johhny Marks, “Let it Snow” by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, and so on (Mental Floss has a nice list with history and whatnot).