Posts Tagged: history of Hanukkah
A History of Hanukkah and Jewish Survival
We like to think that Hanukkah was the great victory of Judah, the son of Mattiyahu the Priest (who initiated the resistance) against the mighty...
A Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2024
Here are eight things to know about Hanukkah, as the holiday begins tomorrow night: 1. A bust of Judah the Maccabee is displayed at West Point...
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...
A Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2016
1. Hanukkah and Jewish immortality. In 1899, Mark Twain wrote: “Jews constitute but one percent of the human race…, [but] their contributions to literature, science, art, music,...
