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No Chanukah Song on Shatner’s New Holiday Album

06 Dec 2018
News

On William Shatner’s new holiday ablum,  “Shatner Claus,” the actor sings classic Christmas songs, including “Jingle Bells,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Silent Night,” but no Chanukah songs. Shatner, who is Jewish, has had second thoughts about that decision.

“I was going to do ‘Dreidel, Dreidel,’ then I thought better of it … I mean, I should have, maybe,” Shatner said in a PBS documentary.

Shatner, best known for playing Captain Kirk in “Star Trek,” also spoke about how his mother would make latkes during the holiday.

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