Just a couple of days ago we joined in the fun of posting another parody of this song by the a cappella group Six13. But this version came in after Hanukkah started and we thought you'd like to see a different take on it.
In this version, Mendy, dressed as the Loopholer Rebbe, leads his Chasidim out of the office where they work, to take the day (or week) off from work because it's a Jewish holiday.
As the Jewish online newspaper The Algemeiner reports:
Menachem Weinstein, the video’s lead singer, is the creative director at the all-boys Jewish Educational Trade School (JETS) inLos Angeles . I’m Taking Off features all JETS students, including the young boy who raps in Yiddish about fooling his boss, losing his job and then having to work at the Jewish-owned electronics store B&H.
“We sort of want to show the world that Hassidic Jews are not those close-minded, sad, closed people,” Weinstein said. “We wanna show the world Hassidic Jews can have fun and we’re fun.”The boss and co-workers are understandably not pleased with this display of chutzpah in taking off on a holiday on which work is permitted. While in our working days we took off our share of religious holidays like Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot, but we never took the same privilege with Purim or Chanukah.
We hope this video is only in the spirit of satire and parody and not an attempt to portray Chanukah as a holiday that demands taking off from work.
Enjoy!
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For those of us who work, it's really hard coming back to work after a Yontif with everyone in the office asking "how was your vacation!" As if cooking 6 meals (or more if it's a 3 day yontif), kids not in school and not being able to watch TV etc is a vacation!! Actually, I don't know too many people who take off Chanukah. That's one, at least, we don't have to endure the "how was your vacation" and "boy, I wish I was Jewish so I can have so many vacation days"!!
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