New Music Monday: Eight Bright Nights and Candlelight

Hey-o Mondayers! It's that time of week again and now that it's winter, and all dark, cold and gloomy, we need some extra good new music to lift our spirits. That's why NMM will be featuring new holiday music all through December. This Monday we're taking a trip to Yeshiva University, in New York City, where a young group of men created an all-male a-capella group in the fall of 2007.



This song is called "Candlelight" by The Maccabeats. If it sounds familiar, it is! The song is a spin on Taio Cruz's "Dynamite", but this is no cover. These young men are finding a nice cozy spot in the a-capella world, as well as the world of Jewish music. I adore this song and I sincerely hope it will become a Hanukkah favorite!

-Whitni

In case you don't know, Hanukkah is the Jewish celebration of a Jewish victory over Syrian-Greeks in 165 B.C. The Syrian-Greeks took control of a holy temple and tried to force the Jews to bow down to false idols and eat pork- two things forbidden in Judaism. The Jews took back control of the temple and tried to purify the temple by burning oil on a menorah for eight days, but they found they only had enough oil for one day. They lit the menorah anyway and, miraculously, the menorah stayed lit for eight days.