Hanukkah is a festival about a miracle: a vessel of oil for the Jewish Temple menorah that was supposed to last one day ended up burning for eight.
So it is entirely fitting that on this Internet-age Hanukkah, a video about the holiday performed to a hip-hop beat by an obscure a cappella group made up of yarmulke-wearing Yeshiva University students and graduates has stretched into a YouTube sensation.
In 10 days, they have had more than 2 million hits (there are only 6 million Jews in the United States), have appeared on “The Early Show,” and have had their video shown on “Today” and aired on radio stations Z100 and WPLJ. They are also being seriously wooed by a CD label.
Scores of comments have been posted by Jews who pledged to light menorahs after years of forgoing the ritual and non-Jews who seemed on the threshold of converting.
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