Leor dimant jewish community
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Each holiday season in the U.S., Christmas cheer fills shopping centers and radio airwaves like an avalanche of fake snow. Growing up Jewish in this environment, one of my few respites from the stampede of Santas was Adam Sandler’s goofy ditty “The Chanukah Song.” His lyrics don’t deal so much with the cliched trappings of Hanukkah—menorahs, chocolate gelt, dreidels, the fist-size sugar-caked jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot—as with who might be celebrating it. It was that list of fellow Jews, whether yoked together puckishly (“Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too / Put them together, what a fine-lookin’ Jew”) or crammed awkwardly into lines too short for their syllables (“The owner of the Seattle Supersonicahs / Celebrates Hanukkah”), that helped me feel less strange about the absence of a fir tree hung with glass balls in my living room.
When Sandler debuted “The Chanukah Song” on Saturday Night Live in 1994, he explained, “When I was a kid this time of year always made me feel a little left out because in school there were so many Christmas songs and all us Jewish kids had was the song ‘Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel.'” That’s obviously an exaggeration—the eq
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Leor Dimant was born to a Latvian-Jewish family in Riga, when it was part of the Soviet Union. His first contact with music was through his father Grisha Dimant (1951–2007), who, along with his friends, played guitar in a rock band.\n', '
In 1976 when Dimant was four, he and his family emigrated to Italy, where they remained for a year until they obtained a visa. His parents chose to move to the New York area. There, his father performed in various Russian clubs and restaurants, mostly in Brighton Beach.\n', '
Dimant and his parents lived in Jersey City for some time. They moved to Los Angeles in 1987, where his father got a job at a new Russian restaurant. His first introduction to hip-hop was in Jersey City, when his school held a talent show with several students performing a rap song, and Dimant was amazed. Once he moved to Los Angeles, he quickly became interested in hip hop culture, including break dancing and graffiti. Before learning to DJ, he started off as a beatboxer. He later practiced DJing using his friend\'s turntables and mixer.\n', '