The Jewish impulse to remake pop culture staples for the holidays is almost as strong as our ability to withstand millennia of oppression, don’t you think?
This year, there’s a Hogwarts Haggadah, a “Hamilton”-themed Passover album, and now, of course, a big, “La La Land” style video. “Y-Studs A Cappella, a popular Jewish A Cappella group based in NYC” has been busy remaking the movie musical’s opening number, the impressive “Another Day of Sun” in the supermarket aisles, while shopping for matzah.
I cannot wait for every living relative of mine to send me this video over email in the next few days!
Enjoy “La La” Passover below.
Sarah M. Seltzer
Sarah Seltzer, former editor for Kveller, is a writer and editor in New York City. She is a journalist covering culture, activism and gender, most recently as Deputy Editor at culture website Flavorwire.com. Her print and online work has appeared in publications including Poets & Writers, The Forward, Lilith, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, Salon, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Refinery29, The Toast, Rolling Stone, and many more. She is a graduate of Harvard University, where she edited The Crimson’s weekend magazine, as well as the MFA in writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her first baby, Mikey, is growing up way too fast and she can objectively report that he is very cute. You can follow her at @sarahmseltzer and reach her at sarah@kveller.com.
