Jack Shafer on the Christmas Conundrum

By Jeffrey Goldberg
I'm on the phone with Jack Shafer and he asks an obvious question: Why, if most of the great Christmas songs are written by Jews, do the Jews not have any great Hannukah songs? "Or Purim songs," he added.

Someone help me out here.

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