Hanukkah: Rock of Ages

Absolutely brilliant! Love it! Definately going to share this one- fantastic for vrum and non-affliated Jews!

I loved it!! The Jews are the best musicians and dancers. Thank you. You brighten my Hanukkah.

I absolutely loved this video I would love to have this on my Facebook page , And I laugh so hard , it was so cute

What a great way to get the kids attention!

Supper and Jiggling tune to rock the Chanukahl. Warm and uplifting lyrics remake that reminds one that Jews, Israel & Chanukah is on, safe & sound.

send this Chanukah video to the NY times and the Jerusalem Post.They need to telling the womderful parts of our heritage

USA and Christians everywhere stand with you Israel! Praying daily for the Peace of Jerusalem-Israel! Love my Jewish Brothers and Sisters!

You can't help dancing along and feeling the spirit of it all. It's wonderful!

Super cette vidéo pour tous. Elle redonne du goût à la vie dans un monde d'argent & si triste & pollué...! Merci à vous. Bonnes fêtes des Lumières symbolisant LA LUMIERE qui nous vient de L'ETERNEL: SOURCE de toute LUMIERE, de tout AMOUR. GOD BLESS you.

So amazing, I started clapping when it was done, lol! Love it, so creative! MAKE MORE PLS!! Happy Chanukah to all! May HaShem bless you! xxx

Very creative and unique- Awsome job!!!

Feel good musical entertainment.! Loved it

this is great!! thank you

YOU GUY'S..... Really a great thing. Made my day!! Will share with my students!

i am in love with it

Loved your Chanukah Jewish Rock of Ages video. Excellent Job Thank You for bringing us a innovative fresh video.

cannot see this video becauce I don't have you tube

i love this website!!!

I loved that video!!!!!

WoW Aish you produced a winner with this music video. Who wants Hanukkah to end, it has been inspiring, fun, and lots of good food. Thanks for bringing us something new and refreshing this Hanukkah. The guys in the video were excellent in their performance, adding spunk in getting the Hanukkah message out. Thanks to all!

very good!...especial...gracias...kisses from brasil

This is realllu cool thanks!

love it !

There are so few family DVDs for Chanukah. This would make a really cool one for a party.

we all love this, even my 2 year old has been trying to breakdance!!!1

u guys ROCK!!! awesome dancing!!!!! looove it!!! can't stop watching!!! my whole school is OBSESSED!!!!! p.s. can i have the guy in the front row's number ;)

I can't stop watching the rock of ages Chanukah medley, i m enjoying it SO MUCH! I love it! thanks guys, you did a great job! Such talent! OY! Your mamas must be kvelling!!!

Not focused. Just too much for a minor festival.

Happy Hanukkah to all as we light the first candle tonight. This video really rocked, and reminds us that Hanukkah is fun and spirited, as well as spiritual. Great creativity and way cool dancers!!

Staying alive was the best! but does it reveal my age if I dont recognize the last few tracks??!

kudos to the rockers! Entertaining, meaningful and "right on"fun. Great talent,fun with a message!!!!!!!!!!!!Happy Chanukah!

Fun way to connect an ancient miracle and message to modern day times and media. I loved the music, costumes, and dancing.

How Goyish!

spining is awesome

I loved this and already shared it on Facebook. Now let's see, who am I going to email it to...

its annoying

i laughed out loud! you need to get all the references to appreciate the shher genius behind this film. Aish Rocks!

Thank you for the good wishes, I wish everybody a Happy Chanukah and peace in Israel. Sing with the children Yiddish songs about Chanukah, you can sing my song in Yiddish about Chanukah, it's in my book for children. Thank you, Grunia Kohn

Very cute!

totally loved it!!!

It is terrific....loved it....sending it onl

Iwould buy it if available as a DVD.

I am seeing more and more Jewish-Israeli videos and it is about time that somebody in our faith started some PR for us. Great Job-Keep it going, the more the better. We need people to get to know who we were and are and not what they thought or were taught who and what we were and are.

Many people are selling a New brand of Judaism A new flavor An imitation They’re trying to attract Others By Authenticism Genuine Judaism But they are selling A sham

While I agree that you need not re-brand Judaism, Aish is about getting the message of Torah out to the Jews that may not know enough to care. These videos which inspire pride and confidence in our religion are the means to the end, not the end itself. I don't think anything in the Torah prevents us from the Joy these videos bring.

Fun video. I have no idea what videos are being parodied past MC Hammer. Finally feel like Rav Gil with baseball.

i think it is crazy and awesome!!!!

I ate it up! I recognized myself in some of those scenes. It was easy to laugh at and to dance to. I don't think I could do the break dancing though. It would require a real Olympic feat. That's just too Greek for me, by zeus.

I could not stop laughing! And it made me want to know more about the holiday. I grew up not knowing I was Jewish. Looking back all I remember was eating potato cakes with Russian grt grandma on a 'special day". My aunt said since her mom tried to hide it, she always felt it was something to be ashamed of. Was cool to see people having fun and not ashamed to be Jews.

Aish is a great source of information on all topics Jewish.

Where can i find the words for the song?

Unbeleivable. These guys are fantastic. When they did the R.H. video my family watched a ton. Now this. Whats next??

Absolutely fabulous. Thanks fellas! What a way to spread the message to the younger set.

From the moment it began. Aish.com has some seriously talented people. Thanks for the wonderful smile you gave me with this video.

I could not stop laughing and enjoying this video. Brillliant presentation. Aish rocks!!!

Loved it!!!

The Rosh Hashana Roch Anthem was a dynamic, out of this world HIT, and this Hanukah video was for the super duper puper scooper, But my daughter still wants to meet the blonde haired boy.

Totally enjoyed watching this expression of faith.

thank you for a good laugh!

YOU GET THE JOY OF HANUKKAH WHEN YOU SEE AND HEAR IT! SHALOM

Shalom Shalom , thanks very much for the music ; really enjoy it and wish it could continue none stop.

I recognize all the "ages"-you guys are great Wanna see more

i really really loved it. it gave me inspiration. thank you aish.

Entertain me some more.

This was outstanding

that wuz great!!!! the dancers are awesome, and the dance moves are great. it cracked me up, especially the aladdin pants part!

so so cute loved it. cant wait for purim!!!!

When I see wonderful talent used for a wonderful, kosher cause I get pretty emotional -- tears well up, the whole thing. Question: are any of these performers involved at all with Aish? (If not, why not?)

My grandson asked me about Chanukah. This is a great way to teach him! Songs are great. Music spin is terrific. Yet, I will not fail to show the sacredness of all things pertaining to G-d.

Terrific video. Such great energy!

Good message, but way to radical for me! I don't like that kind of music at all.

Who is the blond supposed to be? I recognized MC Hammer and John Travolta, and Easyrider, but that was about it!

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The lyrics begin, "To be a Jew this they could not stand They tried to kill But we rebelled..." In fact, the Greeks were happy to let Jews live in peace – as long as the Jews renounced Shabbos, Bris Milah, and Rosh Chodesh. Many Jews caved in to Hellenization. Those Jews who remained loyal to the Torah would rather die than do that, so they took up arms in rebellion against the Greeks (and against the Greeks’ Hellenized Jewish allies).

awesome movie!!!!! i watch it over and over! thanks!!

thanks for bringing some more fun for Hanukah. Songs that both my daugher and myself could recognise and have a good laugh.

I would had liked to see more dancing and morein Eretz Yisrael and them being who they are, talented Jewish men to tell the story instead of all the silly wigs and goofiness. The Rosh Hashana anthem was better!

yes i agree! they make fools of themselves!!!! the rosh hashana anthem just looked cooler

what songs are in it? i recognized"move like Jagger" but what are all the other songs

Song 1 Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis Song 2 Twist and Shout - Beatles Song 3 Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf Song 4 Staying Alive – Bee Gees Song 5 Don’t Stop Believing – Journey Song 6 U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer Song 7 I Like To Move It - Sasha Baron Cohen Song 8 Moves like Jagger – Maroon 5

1) Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis 2) Twist and Shout - the Beatles 3) Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf 4) Stayin' Alive - BeeGees 5) Don't Stop Believing - Journey 6) Can't Touch This - MC Hammer 7) I Like to Move It - Sasha Baron Cohen 8) Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 And is it just me, but does the last sequence seem to out-Lipa Lipa Shmeltzer in Hentalach Around the World?

So many musical ways great to learn about and celebrate - this one, not what I expected. Look forward to other styles... All you talented people be role models! Chag Samaech. LER

cute says it all

U GUYS ARE SICK DANCERS!!!

Woww ! kol hakavodd ! thats a lot of work and really thanks for being so inspiring to us all ! Kol hakavod ! that video was amazing PS: Kristina: by being like this is the way you attract non religious ppl to be religious and to go in the path of torah

These parodies are just wonderful!

Where could I get the lyric from Rock of ages video? I'm having a musical & I'd love to teach this song to my kids. Best Regards Edgar

Kol HaKavod on a job well done! Absolutely fantastic!

I really enjoyed this video. I wish it was available in the full format so I can send it to my family and friends. 3:56 is too short! Gets the message across. Happy Hanukkah!

I'm middle aged, and raised on Rock and Roll, so I identify with each era in your songs. I think you are all talented, and the video is entertaining. I can appreciate the parody from the perspective of someone raised secular and who has also made a deeper commitment to study and practice Judaism later in life. However, this approach would have backfired on me as a teen. In the 60's, I was a reluctant pre-teen coerced into a temple experience that I could not identify with. I had a deep yearning for the spiritual essence of Judaism, but could not connect with the religious school or services there. One day, there was a Jewish "rock band" in the temple, and the effort to be "hip" fell flat. I had heard every amazing rock song of the era, but I was looking for something better- a connection to G-d. Years later, I discovered the contemporary music of a talented observant Jewish singer. It was his talent combined with beautiful meaningful lyrics and profound spirituality that touched me, even when my knowledge was limited. I felt something in the music and words that inspired me to learn more, and I think this is what you wish to appeal to in youth. However, even as a 12 year old, I yearned for serious authenticity. Cute, funny, and hip is entertaining, but it did not light up my soul the way spirituality did.

I've watched the video several times because it makes me laugh. The dance moves, I myself attended dance classes back in the 70's to move with the groove, American style. The ability, one music video to reach across the ages, those that appreciate the music and lyrics, ought of where it came from. For you it drawn you back in your mind your commitment and what drew you there to make a deeper commitment. The video isn't of a profoundly spiritual nature, was it intended to be so, and I thought is the message being portrayed to take Hanukkah this year more of a secular view and do I only wish? Each year, expecting the get-go to make it that. My first thoughts after watching was to go out and buy gifts for the eight days, Christmas style, and buy those Wal-Mart Hanukkah gift cards to support the fact they thought of the Jewish people to make them(I battle this every year). I'm fighting the temptation another year, to keep Hanukkah spiritual, withdrawn from being secular for my household, the temptation is splashed all around with the Roman Holiday going on also. I still appreciate the good laughs this video produces in me, belly up. It does remind me of my secular days of old, however, when I see John Travolta and think of Saturday Night Fever, Hanukkah now will come to mind. Grease Lightning, will be Oil Lighting, we may be Old Dogs in the eyes of some, however, we are not "out of love" we still have life in us, like the miracle of the burning flames. Happy Hanukkah!

Another AWESOME video!!! THANK YOU!!! :-))

I really have mxed feelings about this video. I recognize how this can be helpful to reach young unaffiliated Jews, and so much credit goes to Aish for that. But, Chanukah is supposed to show us the difference between the Jews and the rest of the world, and here we are showing how we can be like them! Something about it bothers me, though I cannot deny the talent displayed here.

Judy, I don't think it's a matter of us trying to be "like them". I think it's a matter of us accepting others who are "like them". The reason for the destruction of the temple was because of "sinas chinum", unbased hatred. Had Jews been more accepting of each other and their differences, we might not have lost the Bais Hamikdash. This video is very appropriate, because it's a clear sign of welcome to all.

Tzittzit and disco? Love it!

I understand the prohibition of "listening to a woman's voice", but feel that it is too bad that no women were featured in your video. And I also understand "a special role" of women. too bad they can not be highlighted having a good time as the men were.

HAPPY CHANUKAH TO ALL!! BLESSINGS FOR SHALOM AND GOOD HEALTH! MOZEL TOV GREAT JOB ON CHANUKAH VIDEOS!

I like the last part "Chanukah is like this' but I don't like seeing your strong and handsome young men being so goofy. You have impressive talent. Use it to be role models and mentors - help the young want to be together and intelligent and strong.

They are showing their talent, that life is fun and that being Jewish doesn't have to focus on atrocities all the time!

Sometimes being goofy is a g8 way to grab a young person's attention. I loved it! (And I am not a "young person ;)

Kristina: Yes, they are young. "Goofy" is part of enjoying youth and having joy in life. Simcha Chai = Youth (it also equals the same for grandfathers like me, but that is also called "nachas!"). Let them enjoy their youth. Sharing the joys of life is, after all, a mitzva to them. (Ani lo Yehudi, aval ani tzioni v'yedid l'yehudim.) David min-Phoenix, AZ, USA

Man, you guys are AWESOME! Thanks for putting that together for us all!

loved it! great idea, wonderful dancing!

I love it!!! Thank you! Gut Yontiff!

Well done boys!! Amazing songs and loved the moves!

Y'all are just too cool !!!!!!!!!!!! Chag Samayach!!!

I just like this! You made it again! Gut Yontiff!

WAAW !!!!!!!!

loved it

holy sufganiyot that was amazing

Loved it.

surprising eye opener

Fantastic - very very clever. Kol ha kavod! Yeshakoach to all involved.

That was so amazing!! i was smiling the whole time!

When I was there we met in a basement in the Old City, a kinda small yeshiva. How far Aish haTorah has come since 1980. As to this video, I love it. Recognize a few of the guys from the wonderful Rosh haShana video. Kol hakavod yedidim sheli! - David

I would have liked the ending all 'lit up' if you see what I mean. Thanks

I loved it!

love it, wicked

THIS THE AWESOME, COOL, AND RADICAL VIDEO I EVER SEEN!!!

Thank you for all that put in the work to rock younger Jews into the present rather than the rock of ages ago. Bravo.

Thanks—keep it up!

wow this is kind of strange!!!...no really strange! i mean its cool but...huh?

you phrased my thoughts exactly

What a fun great video that brought a smle to my face and hopefully will bring light to all!

AISH ROCKS!!!

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I guess the Greeks won after all.

Greece came into existence to beautify the world. The Jews are supposed to teach the world how to use this beauty properly. No contradiction!

great line!

you took the words right out of my mouth! well said!

I think this comment was referring to the fact that all the songs were almost completely unchanged versions of songs taken from the non-Jewish culture around us. In other words, like the misyavnim of old, Jewish-plated.

ROTFLMHO!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE it, thanks for making and posting!!

how much money did they spend on this?