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No one loves Hanukkah more than Rachel. While she helps her father decorate the house and her mother whips up a batch of latkes, Rachel hums a Hanukkah tune.
“Biddy-biddy bim-bom bim-bom bop,” she sings. “I’ll whirl all night at our Hanukkah Hop.”
When the house is ready and the food prepared, the family’s guests begin to arrive: “Bubbes and zaydes zoom in by plane. Nices and nephews ride buses and trains. Great-aunts, second cousins, old friends from afar are arriving by motorbike, camper, and car.”
After the menorah is lit and the dreidel song sung, everyone sits down to eat. Then, when they are all done, the real fun begins. The four-piece Klezmer Band arrives, and soon they are set up and the dancing begins.
“Cousins are twisting and jumping and flipping. Great-aunts and uncles are stepping and dipping.” After dancing the evening away, everyone is tired except Rachel. “Biddy-biddy bim-bom bim-bom bop, I’m the only one still dancing at our Hanukkah Hop,” she says.
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The Hanukkah Hop!