They had been a extremely popular singing group who recorded and carried out folks songs within the 1960’s akin to, If I had a Hammer, Blowing within the Wind, Lemon Tree, The place Have all of the Flowers Gone, and so forth.  Right here they carry out If I had a hammer (1960’s)

What you won’t bear in mind is their superb music, Mild One Candle from the 1980’s. 

From Wikipedia:

“The primary efficiency of the music was at a 1982 live performance in Carnegie Corridor.^[1]

The music was written in 1982^[2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon Warfare (with Israel), an intention was mirrored within the lyrics “Mild one candle for the horrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Mild one candle for the knowledge to know when the peacemaker’s time is at hand.”^[3][1]

In 1983, the three singers (solely Peter is Jewish) traveled to Israel to carry out at an massive out of doors live performance within the holy metropolis of Jerusalem.

Tonight is the primary night time of Chanukah/Hanukkah. 

We gentle our Hanukkah candles this 12 months with heavy hearts remembering the horrific atrocities that lately transpired in Israel concentrating on infants, kids, ladies, and the aged. We pray for the discharge of all the harmless hostages that had been brutally kidnapped and are being stored in prisoners in darkish underground tunnels and we mourn for the various that weren’t taken as hostages, however as a substitute had been burned alive or beheaded, some after first being brutally raped. 

The place is the antisemitism coming from on school campuses? 

An organzation referred to as, “College students for Justice in Palestine” is a pupil group on each school campus within the US, is sponsored by Muslim organizations for the only objective of spreading anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment and has been very diligent and really profitable over the previous 15 years. A lot of their rhetoric and accusations are based mostly on lies. For instance, Israel is oppressing the folks of Gaza. Reality is Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and Gaza has been below the rule of Hamas since then. The group helps the actions of Hamas!!

Peter, Paul, and Mary’s Hanukkah music, written in the course of the Israel Lebanon struggle, is a music of hope for peace. It appears to be like again to the story of Hannukah, the early wrestle 2,000 years in the past when the Jewish Maccabees defended Jerusalem towards the  mighty Assyrian military and saved the Jewish folks and the holy Temple that the Assyrians had desecrated. That’s the miracle of Hanukkah. 

Peter, Paul, and Mary highly effective Hanukkah music remains to be a reminder to be robust and have hope in the course of the present state of affairs of terror, struggle, and the anti-semitism that’s brewing proper now on the earth and particularly school campuses.   

The music under is gorgeous, inspiring, and price taking a couple of minutes to hearken to it. 

Hanukkah is The Competition of Lights

The refrain of the music:

 “Do not let the sunshine exit, It is lasted for therefore a few years. Do not let the sunshine exit, Let it shine via our love and our tears.