[HANASHIR:8019] What makes a song Jewish (Tu B'Shevat songs)

[DurlKare <DurlKare...>]

Ok, I have to write this.  Not to be majorly controversial or anything, but 
what do these secular songs teach about the Jewish traditions?  Which brings up 
the question: what makes a song JEWISH?

My personal definition is: it either teaches something FROM OUR TRADITION, or 
else has some Hebrew or Yiddish words, or an English translation of something 
in our VAST literature of knowledge and prayer....The songs mentioned for Tu 
B'Shevat are NICE but not JEWISH.  We have such little time with our students 
and congregations, why waste it on bringing the outside world in?  There are so 
many lovely traditional songs we still have to learn (at least I know that I 
don't know them all!)

-Karen Daniel
Jewish performer/songwriter/recording artist
Nashville, TN

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