{"id":46143,"date":"2018-12-02T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T03:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46143"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:13:27","slug":"william-shatner-didnt-include-a-chanukah-song-on-his-new-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/william-shatner-didnt-include-a-chanukah-song-on-his-new-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner didn\u2019t include a Chanukah song on his new Christmas album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014&nbsp;William Shatner recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/william-shatner-enlists-iggy-pop-henry-rollins-more-for-christmas-album-shatner-claus\/\">released<\/a>&nbsp;a star-studded holiday album titled \u201cShatner Claus,\u201d on which he croons classic Christmas tunes as \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\u201d and \u201cSilent Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are no Chanukah songs on it, and the Jewish icon is having regrets about that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46144\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46144\" class=\"wp-image-46144 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46144\" class=\"wp-image-46144 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/GettyImages-599236994.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-46144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shatner speaking at a \u201cStar Trek\u201d conference at the Javits Center in New York, Sept. 4, 2016. (Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was going to do \u2018Dreidel, Dreidel,\u2019 then I thought better of it \u2026 I mean, I should have, maybe,\u201d Shatner said in the upcoming PBS documentary \u201cHanukkah: A Festival of DeLights,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\/Diaspora\/William-Shatner-reminisces-about-his-Hanukkah-traditions-572951\">according to the Jerusalem Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also opened up about his childhood Chanukah memories in the doc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe menorah was silver and blackened a little by years of use \u2014 the places where the candles went in were black no matter how much polishing had been done,\u201d Shatner said. \u201cIt was something that sat somewhere on the mantelpiece all year long until it was used \u2014 and then it was used with great reverence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2018\/10\/09\/news-opinion\/the-telegraph\/william-shatner-says-experienced-great-deal-anti-semitism-growing\">The Montreal-born actor<\/a>, best known for playing Captain Kirk in \u201cStar Trek,\u201d also spoke about how his mother would make latkes during the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother\u2019s standing over a frying pan, putting the mixture of potato, the ground-up potatoes into the sizzling fat, the oil, and frying up potato pancakes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe [memory of] potato pancakes and the applesauce \u2026 and the family all around having the pancakes is indelible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"William%20Shatner%20didn%E2%80%99t%20include%20a%20Chanukah%20song%20on%20his%20new%20Christmas%20album\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[823,7137],"tags":[8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46147,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46143\/revisions\/46147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}