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Photo by AP. On a recent “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Adam Sandler spoke fondly of his famous Chanukah Song that he performed on Saturday Night Live in the show’s heyday back in 1994. On the occasion of the song’s 25th anniversary, he told DeGeneres, “That’s a long time for one song,” and “If there are any other Jewish people out there who want to write a new one, that’d be great. I’d love to share the Hanukkah spirit with you.” Rabbi Levi Hodakov, Director of Chabad of Clearwater, Florida, took Sandler up on his offer. The song he composed is 98% new and 2% Sandler. The rabbi of the local branch of the world’s largest Jewish organization rewrote the song and performed a variation live at his community’s Mega Chanukah Celebration. The song received rave reviews from the community, with one participant texting Hodakov, “Your song this year was amazing,” and another commenting, “I loved it!” He says he spent several hours writing the lyrics in the weeks leading up to Chanukah. He hopes the song will put a smile on people’s faces and give young Jews more pride in who they are. “If people put on their yarmulke and do one more mitzvah, it’s all worth it!” Hodakov stated. “Hopefully, Adam Sandler will like the new version and perform it next year here in Clearwater” Hodakov joked. You can read Hodakov’s full lyrics below, sung to the tune of Sandler’s original. Put on your yarmulke here comes Chanukah So much funukah to celebrate Chanukah Chanukah is the Festival of Lights Instead of one day of presents we have eight great nights. When you feel like the only kid in town without a big green tree, Here’s a list of people who are Jewish just like Moses, Judah the Maccabee, and me Actor Seth Rogen has started learning to speak Yiddish And Revlons Ronald Perelman, on Friday night makes Kiddush They say Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, lights the Menorah But next year in the White House Michael Bloomberg hopes to dance the Hora Mayim Bialik enjoys eating a good piece of Kugel So does William Shatner and the two guys who founded Google The late Elie Wiesel used to wrap Tefillin and so does the great singer Bob Dylan Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is giving away his money and on Rosh Hashana, Adam Sandler dips his apple in his honey Tampa Bay Rays Owner Stuart Sternberg is a member of the tribe And we can count the Lightings Jeff Vinik on our side First Lady Melania Trump, NOT a Jew, But Ivanka, Jared and kids all are poo poo poo On Passover Howard Stern, the 4 questions does ask So does Gal Gadot in her Wonder Woman mask Comedian Jackie Mason is short and very funny And Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has his signature on all our money Former Ambassador Nikki Haley, isn’t Jewish yet But if she ever changes her mind, I’ll teach her the Alef Bet Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and Dennis Prager too Are all a bunch of very proud Jews Actress Mila Kunis Shabbat candles does light And President Trump wishes, Congressman Adam Schiff would go fly a kite World famous Judge Judy is a very nice Jewish maidel And Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe knows how to spin the Dreidel Senator Chuck Schumer has a Mezuzah on his door But Paula Abdul, has more than four We have three of six on the Supreme Court bench That’ll be Ginsburg, Kagan & Steven Breyer the Mentch I hope you weren’t offended, I hope you’re not upset The entire song was sung in jest After 8 days of latkes and donuts, you may need a new belt But remember Chabad of Clearwater needs your gelt From New York to Clearwaterkah get up and celebrate Chanukah because now it’s time to light the giant Menorah Happy Chanukah!