On September 24, 1989, Bob Dylan joined his son-in-law Peter Himmelman and Harry Dean Stanton onstage to perform “Hava Nagila” during  the 25th annual Chabad ... There could be several reasons why Dylan teamed up with Chabad. First, he’s no stranger to the song. A 20-year-old Dylan deconstructed it as “Talkin’ Hava Nagila Blues” when he was still performing at Greenwich Village folk clubs. Dylan’s stepdaughter Maria had married Himmelman, a devout Jew, in May 1988. And soon after his much-publicized conversion, Dylan began studying with Chabad rabbis in Flatbush. Dylan’s former personal assistant, Dave Kelly, says Columbia record executives (who were predominantly Jewish) received pressure from the Orthodox Jewish establishment and even threatened to not release Dylan’s next album unless he meet with the rabbis. Whatever the reason he did it, it’s a delightfully unorthodox version of the much-covered tune.

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