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That Time John Lennon Sang In Hebrew

JL;DR SUMMARY In 1969, during John Lennon and Yoko Ono's iconic Bed-in for peace in Amsterdam, Lennon recorded his first and only instance of singing in Hebrew. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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JerusalemChutzpahJohn LennonHebrew SingingCultural MomentsYoko OnoBed InAkiva NofVoice Of Israel

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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"John Lennon and Yoko Onos Bed-in, the couples protest against wars at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel during the Vietnam War, remains one of the most iconic cultural moments of the 20th century."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The song was titled An Oath to Jerusalem, and its writer and composer, Akiva Nof, would go on to pen quite a few more iconic Israeli tunes and even become a  Knesset member."
Israel
"Buechler told Kveller over e-mail. Its definitely one of the most kvell-worthy moments from Lennon and Onos Bed-in, in which Ono infamously said that if I was a Jewish girl in Hitlers day."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Give Peace a Chance, first sung during that famous Bed-in, was performed on stage in Tel Aviv in 2008 by none other than his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney, who has been married to not one, but two, Jewish women."

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