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Hanukkah is all about singing and spinning. We'll write about spinning and the dreidel. BUT This post is about singing. Jewish holidays go together with Jewish songs like matzo and balls, like apples and honey, like bagels and cream cheese. Even the gentiles get into the act! It's a little known fact: several successful artists wrote hits about latkes, then changed the words because their music labels told them to. For example, our super sleuths uncovered the original names of these famous songs: Snoop Dogg -- "Drop It Like It's a Hot Latke" Nelly Furtado -- "I'm Latke Bird" Madonna...

Ok, Hanukkah is coming up, and that means two things: Latkes and dreidels. The VERY Brief History of Latkes. What is the significance of potato latkes? And When were potato pancakes invented?