Throwback Thursday Musical Special: Bob Dylan Sings Hava Nagila at Chabad Telethon in 2005

In 2005, for the 25th anniversary of Chabad telethons, Bob Dylan, Peter Himmelman, and Harry Dean Stanton appeared on stage to sing Hava Nagila for the nationwide Chabad telethon audience.

Bob Dylan, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century, is known for songs that chronicle social and political issues. He was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: שבתאי זיסל בן אברהם Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) in in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior. 

Dylan's paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905. His maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylan's father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. 

The late Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor, musician, and singer. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in the films Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), and many other films. He was given rare lead roles in Wim Wenders' classic Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017), his last film. One of his most memorable roles was Roman Grant, the self-proclaimed polygamist prophet on the HBO series Big Love.

Peter Himmelman, Bob Dylan's son-in-law, is an American singer-songwriter and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Himmelman, an Orthodox Jew who has never performed on Shabbat, famously turned down The Tonight Show when the date coincided with the Sukkot holiday.

Enjoy!

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