Hanukkah

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/16/2022
  

  Jews of Color have Made Traditions of "Untraditional" Hanukkah Celebrations

  by Samira Mehta

  Jews from outside Ashkenazi heritage present celebratory and food practices that show the diversity in Jewish communities and the navigation of tradition in interfaith families. 

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• 12/12/2021
  

  While Hanukkah is a Minor Jewish Holiday, The Events it Commemorates Have Lasting World Significance

  by Ralph Seliger

  Hanukkah is almost unique as a religious holiday in having a very solid basis in historical events; and although the holiday and the conflict it commemorates may seem minor, their impact was enormous for world events in the ensuing centuries.   

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• SOURCE: Forward
  11/30/2021
  

  Hanukkah Today Would Make the Maccabees Roll Over In Their Graves

  The holiday's modern popularity as a Christmas analogue for assimiliated Jews is ironic; the Maccabees sought both to overthrow Greek rule in Judea and to end Hellenistic Judaism.

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• 11-30-17
  

  Why Do Jews Celebrate Hanukkah?

  by Ariel Feldman

  It’s probably the most public Jewish holiday in the U.S.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-4-15
  

  What We Know About the Truth Behind the Hanukkah Story

  The holiday is confusing—and not just its spelling

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  12-16-14
  

  The other story of Hanukkah

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  How the Jewish holiday became distinctly, wonderfully, American