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Hava Nagila

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October 5, 2007

Well, I had a marvelous time last night, did youse? I woke up with slightly sore arms from Torah toting and the stop-trainwreck-yank rhythm of the horah as it first got going and with Hava Nagila stuck in my head.

So, I hit You Tube. Jackpot.

How do you rock Hava Nagila?

I wouldn't have necessarily put ice skating and Hava Nagila together, but Evgeni Plushenko proves it can be done. And, who knew we had out very own Jewish Beatles to ding Hava Nagila for us? This very earth young man is plucking it out on a lyre, while these dudes ar, uh, almost beating the song to death. My personal fave is Meshugga Beach Party's Miserlou version. Here is Dalida's French and Hebrew version that's so La Dolce Vita it almost hurts. Oh, and here's darling Rika Zarai on French TV. Here's a pretty standard version (with usual milling-around background noise), but I love it because it's (a) by the Ned Flanders Band and (b) because of the woman who is all screw you guys, I'll dance by myself. Uh, and here is a sort of techno-Bollywood Hava Nagila that I don't know what to make of. It's catchy though. 

Then, these dudes are playing our beloved simcha song by making their hands fart.  So, there's that. 

Amy Guth is the author of Three Fallen Women, which she is perpetually schlepping around to pimp out. Between travels, she's hard at work on her next novels and is the woman with the pink-stripey hair usually starting up the horah at MOT get-togethers. Keeping true to her stick-it-to-the-man Hebrew namesake (Shifreh), she has written about feminism, sexism, tikkun olam, tzedekah, blaxploitation, social reform, media literacy and all sorts of other things for The Believer, Monkeybicycle, Bookslut, Hungry Chicago, Four Magazine, JewishFringe.com, and The Complete Meal, among others. She blogs Bigmouth indeed Strikes Again about everything, Granola Bar D'var about Jewy eco-kasher goodness, and a few other blogs here and there, has collaborated on a few shows within Second City's Training Center and is an assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus. The select few remember the days when she dabbled in improv, as well, including the night she was the "Kill Whitey" crayon. Stalk her silly at Guth-a-Go-Go.com.

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