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Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after a small Jewish army called the Maccabees reclaimed it from the Greek leader Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC.
On the night of December 28, 2019, the seventh night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, a masked man wielding a large knife or machete invaded the home of a Hasidic rabbi in Monsey, Rockland County, New York, where a Hanukkah party was underway, and began stabbing the guests. Five men were wounded, two of whom were hospitalized in critical ...
Hanukkah provided a way for Jews in America to engage in a distinct Jewish festival so as both to retain a specific ethnic and religious identity, but also to link that up with the predominant ...
The Hanukkah story. According to Jewish tradition, after the winning back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, [a] is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited.
Instead of being victims, the Jews killed "all the people who wanted to kill them." [47] The king gave the Jews the ability to defend themselves against their enemies who tried to kill them, [48] numbering 75,000 (Esther 9:16) including Haman, an Amalekite that led the plot to kill the Jews.
The Hanukkah story vividly illustrates how external threats increase internal cohesion in Jewish history, similar to how fire strengthens tempered steel or intense pressure crystallizes carbon ...
Some of the best known Jewish martyrs of this period is the story of the woman with seven sons and Eleazar (2 Maccabees). The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates and celebrates the miracle of the triumph of the Jews against the ancient Greeks and of Judaism and Torah over classical Greek culture. A number of Maccabees died as martyrs. [14]