{"id":23643,"date":"2013-03-19T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/?p=23643"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:43:29","slug":"maccabeats-les-misrables-medley-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/maccabeats-les-misrables-medley-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"The MACCABEATS: Les Mis\u00e9rables Medley &#8211; Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the earliest days of <strong>Maccabeats<\/strong>, fans have been asking for a Pesach (Passover) video. And for just as long, they&#8217;ve wanted to produce a Pesach video, but only if they could get it right; If they could put together a project that properly portrayed the excitement and grandeur of the Festival of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s film adaption of the classic theatrical masterpiece <strong>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/strong> afforded us the perfect opportunity. <strong>Les Mis<\/strong>, which has always been a <strong>Maccabeats<\/strong> favorite, tells the story of one man&#8217;s search for freedom, salvation, and himself. As such, we found its now-famous melodies and lyrics to be a wholly appropriate avenue for creatively retelling the story of the children of Israel&#8217;s journey from slavery in Egypt to nationhood under God. <\/p>\n<p>Join the Maccabeats in sharing the story and &#8220;music of a people who will not be slaves again&#8221; this Pesach season, and don&#8217;t forget to grab the track on <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/maccabeats.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&#038;id=2b105c2e96&#038;e=90d416ed53');\"  href=\"http:\/\/maccabeats.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&#038;id=2b105c2e96&#038;e=90d416ed53\">iTunes<\/a> or <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/maccabeats.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&#038;id=f0fd58eeb2&#038;e=90d416ed53');\"  href=\"http:\/\/maccabeats.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&#038;id=f0fd58eeb2&#038;e=90d416ed53\">CDBaby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qmthKpnTHYQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qmthKpnTHYQ?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video by Drive-In Productions: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.driveinproductions.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.driveinproductions.com\/\">http:\/\/www.driveinproductions.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This and all Maccabeats music is recorded a cappella.<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.maccabeats.com');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.maccabeats.com\">http:\/\/www.maccabeats.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bookings: booking@maccabeats.com<br \/>\nFacebook: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.facebook.com\/maccabeats');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maccabeats\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maccabeats<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.twitter.com\/maccabeats');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/maccabeats\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/maccabeats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the earliest days of Maccabeats, fans have been asking for a Pesach (Passover) video. And for just as long, they&#8217;ve wanted to produce a Pesach video, but only if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,68],"tags":[6962,6961,6959,1162,6960],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30365,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23643\/revisions\/30365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejewishinsights.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}