The Night Before Hanukkah

   This week begins our 'Happy Holidays', so from my 'Chris Moose Holidays' album, we'll listen to "The Night Before Hannukah", about Santa showing up in a Jewish home.  I received an invitation to a 'Weinukkah' celebration from a couple of wonderful actor friends.  I asked what a 'Weinukkah' celebration was, and they said an old German refugee woman told them she didn’t know she was Jewish when she was a child.  Her family didn't practice Judaism in Germany because of the Nazis.  Once they were safely out of Germany, they celebrated 'Weinukkah' as Hanukkah and Christmas together.  They were grateful for both faiths in their lives, and they wanted to keep both secular traditions alive.  My friends were doing the same!  This world of ours is so full of wonderful, diverse human traditions and beliefs and stories, that can enrich all of us.  Especially the stories about how we struggle to make sure that more dominant cultures do not gobble up and absorb our own sacred stories and traditions. That's called 'cultural appropriation'!  All of our many cultures are equally remarkable and valuable.  If we share and pass things on with an alive curiosity and educate each other about the sources of our stories and songs, we can protect each other's heritage stories, which show us the many paths we've taken to arrive at where we are now.* This weekly Songs To Chew podcast ~ subscribe - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-alsops-songs-to-chew/id1446179156 * My new CAMPING WITH DADS album! ~ https://www.amazon.com/Camping-Dads-Peter-Alsop/dp/B08CS871QW * E-mail/ Website ~ [email protected]  ~ https://www.peteralsop.com * http://www.FaceBook.com/WeLikePeterAlsop * Youtube.com/peteralsop ~ videos* Patreon.com/peteralsop ~ support my music, podcast & other artistic endeavors* CDs & downloads ~ http://www.peteralsop.com/music  Get full access to Peter Alsop’s Substack at peteralsop.substack.com/subscribe