Or how to engage your children while narrating a story by making the characters come to life?

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But though he makes a point of featuring Jewish artists, he never plays the only Hanukkah CD he owns, a staid affair called the "Chanukah Story" by the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble with Theodore Bickel narrating.

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