​Hanukkah

  • Hanukkah (Chanukah), also known as the "Festival of Lights," commemorates a miraculous event in Jewish history.
  • Hanukkah 2024 starts at nightfall on December 25, 2024 and ends with nightfall on January 2, 2025, beginning on the Hebrew calendar date of 25 Kislev, and lasting for eight days.
  • Over 2,000 years ago, during the second century BCE, the Jewish people faced oppression under the rule of the Seleucid Empire.
  • The Seleucids sought to impose their culture and religion on the Jewish population, desecrating the holy Temple in Jerusalem in the process.
  • Led by the Maccabees, a group of Jewish ....
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