About Hanukah

This year Hanukkah (Chanukah), the Festival of Lights, begins Thursday evening, December 10, 2020. It celebrates the Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greek regime of Antiochus. The Greeks attempted to Hellenize the Jews and forbid many Jewish practices and many Jews willingly complied. But a small band of the devout, led by the Matitiyahu the Priest and his son Judah Maccabee, led a successful retaliation against them. When…