It's the latest musical holiday craze -- the hip, happening sounds of Hanukkah.(Sound Recording Review)

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Byline: Alexandra Alter, The Miami Herald

Dec. 17--Hip Hanukkah music (no longer an oxymoron), has become as culturally and musically diverse as its creators -- an eclectic group of young, iconoclastic Jewish musicians whose styles and influences range from alternative rock to Latino hip-hop and reggae.

Witness Chutzpah, a Jewish hip-hop group from Los Angeles that released the song Chanukah's Da Bomb on its debut album this November. The rap song offers a cheery, if somewhat haughty, holiday message: "whichever way you spell it," Hanukkah is better than Christmas because it's seven days longer.

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