This Sunday marks the beginning of Hanukkah, an eight-day celebration that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago. The celebration marks the victory of the Maccabees, a small group of Jewish rebels, over the Seleucid Empire, which had restricted Jewish religious practices. According to tradition, when the Maccabees reclaimed the temple, they found ...

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