--- title: One Direction Hanukkah Parody: Video description: Hanukkah themed One Direction music video parodies Live While We're Young, Story of My Life, Perfect, What Makes You Beautiful canonical: https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-03T19:58:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:20.506Z og:title: This Hanukkah-Themed One Direction Mashup Is Surprisingly Catchy og:description: "Let’s play dreidel dreidel dreidel till we see the sun" og:url: https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Hanukkah-Themed One Direction Mashup Is Surprisingly Catchy twitter:description: "Let’s play dreidel dreidel dreidel till we see the sun" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You’ll Want to Play This Hanukkah-Themed One Direction Mashup for 8 Days and Nights  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 3, 2015 7:58 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 3, 2015 7:58 PM UTC New York City filmmaker [Erez Cohen](https://www.youtube.com/user/erezcohenmusic) has produced a Hanukkah-themed [parody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGUFKPkpw2k) of One Direction hits with Jewish a cappella groups [Six13](http://www.six13.com), Yeshiva University’s [Y-Studs](http://www.ystuds.com/), and [A.K.A. Pella](http://www.akapella.net/) as a promotion for the Manhattan Jewish Experience, a social organization for millennials. The medley features spoofs of “What Makes You Beautiful,” “Story Of My Life” (renamed “Story of My Lights”), “Perfect,” and “Live While We’re Young.” Fair warning: Scenes featuring a man rollerblading in a dreidel costume will make your head spin. Here are some sample lyrics from the spoof of “Live While We’re Young” performed by Y-Studs: --- > “” --- It is the latest Hanukkah-themed music video of the season. In the last week, Jewish a cappella group Six13 released [“Watch Me (Spin/Drey Drey),”](http://time.com/4129287/hanukkah-silento-whip-nae-nae-drake-hotline-bling-acappella/) a parody of Drake’s Hotline Bling and Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), while the group The Maccabeats put out “Latke Recipe,” a spoof of Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up and Dance.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/"},"headline":"You’ll Want to Play This Hanukkah-Themed One Direction Mashup for 8 Days and Nights","datePublished":"2015-12-03T19:58:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:20.506Z","description":"\"Flipping latkes me and you / So tonight / Let’s play dreidel dreidel dreidel till we see the sun\"","url":"https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4134643/hanukkah-one-direction/","name":"You’ll Want to Play This Hanukkah-Themed One Direction Mashup for 8 Days and Nights"}}]}] ```