Posts Tagged: Hanukkah history
Remembering Hanukkah 1917 and the Liberation of Jerusalem
On December 9, 1917, British forces accepted the Turkish surrender of Jerusalem. Two days later, British forces officially entered the walls of the city. As the...
Hanukkah: A ‘Stiff Necked’ People — the Fight for Sovereignty and Against Assimilation
Hanukkah is not just about gifts, latkes, jelly-filled donuts (sufganyot), and dreidels -- though they are certainly nice (and fun). At its core, Hanukkah is the...
Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. Hanukkah’s historical context, according to the Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The War of the Jews by Joseph Ben Mattityahu (Josephus Plavius) is as...
