While Hanukkah falls on different dates every year on the Gregorian calendar you’re probably familiar with, it begins on the ...

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However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

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A few days ago at a party, a friend came up to me and cheerily said, “Merry Chris–…” and then, catching herself, switched to ...

While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of ...

There are well over a dozen holidays each year in the Jewish calendar, yet none are as well known as Hanukkah, the festival of lights. Long ago, when Jews still had the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, it ...

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