Birkat Hachamah - who's song is this?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The Washington Post had an article about celebrations of Birkat Hachamah in DC.

It’s a nice little article about a minor Jewish holiday I’d never heard of before. Then I came to this passage:

:confused:

Um, for the last decade or three Cat Stevens has gone by Yusuf Islam. He famously converted to Islam before these 20-somethings were born.

So is a bunch of Jewish young people singing this song at a Jewish celebration:

  1. An attempt to include a thematically appropriate song in the ceremony,
  2. An attempt to reach out to Muslims by including works from one of their famous singers,
  3. An attempt to greet OpalCat,

or some combination of the above?

I’m not really looking for an answer, I just had to share this mundane and pointless item.

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As the article implies, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam did not write “Morning Has Broken”.

However, it is a Christian hymn, so this remains just as odd as before.