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Meet Orrin Hatch, Hanukkah Songwriter

The Utah Mormon is also a writer of love songs

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 9, 2009 11:02 AM CST

(Newser) – Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch is a prolific author of love songs and Christian spirituals, but it took about 10 years for Jeffrey Goldberg to cajole the “philo-Semite” Mormon into writing a Hanukkah song. Goldberg first floated the idea for “Eight Days of Hanukkah”... Read full story »

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Meet Orrin Hatch, Hanukkah Songwriter

The Utah Mormon is also a writer of love songs

Senate • Utah • Orrin Hatch • Mormon • Hanukkah • Jewish • popular music • Jeffrey Goldberg • Orrin Hatch Hanukkah song • Eight Days of Hanukkah

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