Rap superstar Drake in ‘re-bar mitzvah’

One of the world’s biggest rappers is celebrating his “re-bar mitzvah” in a new music video featuring bagels, Manischewitz and an Israeli flag.

In a clip released at the start of Passover, perennial chart topper Drake depicts his “re-commitment to the Jewish religion,” telling viewers at the start of the video, “I gotta do what I gotta do.”

The clip, for the new single “HYFR,” unfolds mostly in a synagogue, and features the rapper — full name: Aubrey “Drake” Graham — wearing a tallit and yarmulke and reading from the Torah. The clip — which we keep rewatching to be sure it’s real — also displays a Torah-shaped cake that says, “Happy re-bar mitzvah,” and shows the rapper being lifted in a chair while partygoers dance the hora around him.

The video opens by briefly showing the rapper — the son of an African-American father and a Canadian-Jewish mother — around the time he first became a Jewish man, busting some pretty awesome dance moves at what appears to be a bar mitzva party.
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