Hanukkah Reconsidered

Come again? Us against us? I thought it was Jew against Greek: Maccabee vs. Antiochus.

Most of us grew up with the same idealized story: that Hanukkah celebrates the victory of the underdog-Maccabees in preserving our religion despite the callous Syrian-Greek attempt to quash all Jewish rituals.

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