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| - Hanukkah Harry is a fictional character on Saturday Night Live played by Jon Lovitz. Hanukkah Harry is portrayed on the show as a variation upon the modern-day image of Santa Claus, with a beard characteristic of a male adherent of Haredi Judaism, and with his clothes in blue with white edges (the national colors of Israel).
- The first appearance of the character was in a Saturday Night Live sketch called "The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Christmas" that was initially broadcast on December 16, 1989. He was played by the Jewish actor Jon Lovitz. Hanukkah Harry, as depicted in the sketch, is an old man with a white beard who lives on the top of Mount Sinai (where Moses received the Ten Commandments). He travels through the air in a flying cart pulled by three donkeys named Moische, Herschel and Schlomo and wears a costume of blue and white (colors long associated with Judaism and featured on the Israeli flag).
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| - Hanukkah Harry is a fictional character on Saturday Night Live played by Jon Lovitz. Hanukkah Harry is portrayed on the show as a variation upon the modern-day image of Santa Claus, with a beard characteristic of a male adherent of Haredi Judaism, and with his clothes in blue with white edges (the national colors of Israel).
- The first appearance of the character was in a Saturday Night Live sketch called "The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Christmas" that was initially broadcast on December 16, 1989. He was played by the Jewish actor Jon Lovitz. Hanukkah Harry, as depicted in the sketch, is an old man with a white beard who lives on the top of Mount Sinai (where Moses received the Ten Commandments). He travels through the air in a flying cart pulled by three donkeys named Moische, Herschel and Schlomo and wears a costume of blue and white (colors long associated with Judaism and featured on the Israeli flag). Jon Lovitz played Hanukkah Harry a second time in a sketch called "The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Easter", first shown on April 14, 1990. In the sketch, Hanukkah Harry explains that he only has special powers during the eight nights of Hanukkah and he has to ask the Prophet Elijah, who has similar powers during Passover, for help. Although the idea of Hanukkah Harry as a Hanukkah gift-giver is currently neither taken seriously by many Jewish children nor encouraged by their parents, the character has begun to enter the wider popular culture. Some commercial websites offer blue and white Santa Claus outfits for sale as "Hanukkah Harry" costumes. A song called "I Saw Hanukkah Harry Beat Up Santa", written by Hal L. Singer and Georgeanna Barry-Singer, has been recorded. The Hanukkah Harry described in the song differs somewhat from the one depicted in the Saturday Night Live sketches. He is described as having a black beard and it is said that he travels around the world in a flying Cadillac. The song also states that Hanukkah Harry is Santa Claus' brother.
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