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- ↑ Mark Leibovich, "A Senator’s Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable", New York Times, December 8, 2009
- Orrin Hatch, "My 'Eight Days of Hanukkah'" - ↑ "Podcasts that tell the unheard Christmas stories". Financial Times. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ↑ "Candidates take to social media with their Chanukah wishes". Cleveland Jewish News. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ↑ "Did Hanukkah hip-hop peak with 'Dreidel Rap '89'?". Chicago Reader. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ↑ Jeffrey Goldberg, "‘Eight Days of Hanukkah’; How Orrin Hatch came to write a Hanukkah song for Tablet Magazine", Tablet, December 8, 2009
- ↑ "A Senator's Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable". New York Times. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2020.