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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930
VOL. XXXI. NO. 4
The Story of Chanukah
CHANUKAII
GREETINGS
You'll find a visit to our exhibit an
interesting hour among the great de-
signers and great styles of the past
... and more.
Here at your disposal is Detroit's
largest, most comprehensive showing
of distinguished furniture, and in con-
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JEWISH ALLIANCE
ENDORSES A 5-DAY
WEEK FOR WORKERS
The proposal by Senator Walsh
of Massachusetts for a five-slay
working week for government em-.
ployees was lauded at the execu-
tive meeting of the Jewish Sabbath
Alliance of America, 302 East
Fourteenth street, New York.
The Jewish Sabbath Alliance has
been advocating a five-day work-
ing week since 1915, when Dr.
Bernard Drachman, the president,
proposed it at the national conven-
tion of the Lord's Day Alliance
held in Oakland, Cal. At that time
its advocacy was based mainly on
religious and sociological grounds.
"We agree most thoroughly,"
Dr. Drachman said, "that em-
ployees of the government are en-
titled to the shorter working week
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tary leader of Syria, arrived at
the head of another invading
army, 60,000 strong, Judas met
with 10,000 well-armed and picked
men, eager for the fray. The He-
FURS
brews dauntlessly opened the at•
tack on the enemy near Beth-Zur,
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south of Jerusalem, and once more
the Syrians were defeated. 1165
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B. C.) Lysias was compelled to
return to Antioch.
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Their early victor:es paved the
ENSEMBLES
Maccabeans' way towards Jeru-
salem, and Judas and his band of
heroes encountered no serious ob-
stacle in occupying the capital and
the Temple hill. Only the citadel
of Acra still remained in the hands
of the enemy, and leaving a well-
armed detachment of his men to
see that no Syrians escaped from
WASHINGTON BOULEVARD AT CLIFFORD STREET
the fortress, Judas set to work,
unmolested, to restore the holy
places of Jerusalem. As he climbed
the Temple Hill with his warriors,
a scene of ruin and desolation net Ir
their eyes. They found the Tem-
ple all but destroyed, having been
ransacked by the invaders; the
main altar desecrated with idol-
worship, the gates burned down,
the inner chambers wrecked and
the courtyard overgrown with
weeds. Strong men though they
Established 1905
were, neither Judas nor any of his
followers could restrain their
tears, remembering the former
HELEN RESKE, Prop.
beauty and splendor that lay in
ruins before them. But it was no
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time to mourn the past; the fu-
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ture was waiting to be built. They
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immediately began to clear away
the debris and restore the Temple.
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When the outer and inner
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chambers of the Temple were once
more in order, the ceremonies of
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consecration were begun. On the
twenty-fifth day of the month of
Kislev, exactly three years since itta* OCTO O 0 O00 0 0 0 0 s es 0 0 CI-Cs On
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the worship of Zeus first defiled
the building, solemn services were
held and offerings made to the God
of Israel. The rehabilitation of
the holy temple was celebrated
for eight (lays and the ante-cham-
bers were brightly illuminated
every evening. The legend adds
that Judas and his men had found
only one small vessel containing
sacred oil in one of the chambers
of the Temple, but that a miracle
of God caused this to burn in the
Temple lamps for fully eight days.
In other cities of Judea the people
also illuminated their houses to'
celebrate the joyful restoration of
their holy places, and it was de-
cided that those eight days every
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year should be kept as (lays of re-
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liverance of the Ilebrews from the
heathen yoke. This holiday, ob-
served to this (lay by Hebrews all
over the world, is called Chanu-
kah, that is, "The Feast of Conse -
cration," and each evening little
oil lamps or tapers are lit in all
Jewish homes,
Chanukah Greetings
The joyous festival of Chanukah has been interpreted in artistic
fashion in the Menorahs used by Jews throughout the past 20 cen-
turies. The above is an example of the artistic efforts put into the
moulding of the Menorah.
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CHANUKAH
GREETINGS
A Great Moment in Jewish History.
In a little mountain town called
By S. M. DUBNOW
publiAtol by Max N. M•iael, New York/.
Modin, near Jerusalem, there lived (Front As Outline of J•ai4
an aged Ilebrew priest named Mat-
tathias, a member of the Asmo-
nean family. Ile had five sons, Jo- the shelter of their inaccessible expecting to sell all their Hebrew
prisoners as slaves. Great was the
hannan, Simon, Judas, Eleazar and mountains.
Jonathan, and the whole family
The aged leader, Mattathias, consternation when the news of
was well known for its great piety died soon after his heroic exploit the formidable invasion reached
and ardent patriotism. One day against Apelles, but before his Judea; the people gathered in Miz-
Syrian officials appeared in Modin death he exhorted his sons to con- pah, where Judas and his army
to carry out Antiochus' decree that , tinue the holy struggle against th e were garrisoned. They held sol-
all llebrews should adopt his own enemies of their country and their emn services at which the people
heathen religion. The king'sof- religion. His most distinguished fervently invoked the help of the
ticers raised an altar in the town son was Judas, or Jehudah, sur- Lord, and Judas tried to inspire
to the pagan gods and summoned named Nlaccabaeus, or the Ham- his men with courage for their
the people to worship before it. mer, on account of his warlike high task of defending their coun-
Some of them, lacking either faith spirit. He longed fur nothing so try and faith. All who showed
or courage, did as they were com- much as to free the Hebrews from signs of timidity and hesitation
manded and repudiated their own the alien yoke and became the he dismissed from the army anti
religion, but others were not to be leader of the valiant rebel war- left himself with a paltry 6,000
moved from their loyalty to Juda- riors. Then he came out openly men to pit against the enemy le-
' ism. Seeing themselves thus only against the Syrians. When Ap- gions. But his ardent faith and
partially successful, the officials pollonius, the Syrian governor of the consciousness that he was
went to Mattathias, the most re- l'alestine, learned of the rebellion, fighting for a just cause, gave to
spectful man in Modin, and tried he left Samaria with a consider- each Hebrew warrior the strength
to persuade him to take part in the ' able army to put down the insu r- o f 10
The Syrian leaders divided their
heathen rituals, pointing out that rection, but Judas met him with his
the state religion, which was that army and inflicted a severe defeat army into two parts, intending to
of the Greeks, had been made com- upon him. Appollonius was killed surround the Hebrews and exter-
pulsory for all subjects of the in the fight and Judas took his minate them at a single blow. But
Syrian empire, and that the law sword, which he fastened to his Judas Maccabeus found out their ,
applied to natives and aliens, with- own belt and carried ever after- intention and made a rapid detour
out distinction. But 5attathias wards into all his battles, his first which brought his army out on the
proudly answered: "Let all the trophy of war. . . . Judas gained vanguard of the enemy forces.
nations of the king's subject prov- another victory near Beth-lloron Shouting, "The Lord IS with us,"
the Hebrews attacked the Syrians
inces obey him if they choose, where the Hebrew warriors fought
even to the extent of betraying the like raging lions. These two ini- and routed them completely just
outside the city of Emmaus. When
religion of their ancestors. W.t tial successes aroused the enthusi-
the second section of the enemy's
shall not leave the path of our re- asm of the people and instilled army, commanded by Gorgias, ap-
, ligion to go either to the right or fresh courage into them, and the
to the left." And on another oc- rebellion against Antiochus spread peared on the scene and saw its
vanguard defeated, the leader and
casion when Mattathias came over the whole of Judea.
his men beat a hasty retreat, leav-
across one of the Ilebrew apos-
When reports of the rebellion in ing the Hebrews master of the
tates walking across the city square
Judea reached King Antiochus, his situation. (166 B. C.) Judas'
to approach the heathen altar with
fury knew no bounds. Ile sent a captured the entire enemy camp'
. an offering, his anger so over-
huge army into the country of the and a great dael of booty in the
whelmed
him that he pursued the Hebrews with orders to raze the
,
form of ammunition and money
false Ilebrew and killed him then
capital to the ground, exterminate which the slave-dealers had
I and there. Afterwards he and his
or
banish
the
people
and
colonize
brought for the purchase of the'
sons, with a small band of religious
the land with other nationalities. Hebrew prisoners. The Hebrews'
zealots, took up arms against Ap-
Two famous generals, Nicanor and were jubilant at their heroes' ex-
. cites, the king's chief official, and Gorgias., led the Syrian army into
traordinary success, and the vic-
•after slaying them, tore down the , Judea. The invaders were so cer- tory brought so many new volun-
lheathen altar in Modin. (167 B.
teers
flocking to join Judas' army
tain of victory that they even in-
I C.) Then Mattathias took up his vited rich merchants to their camp, that when Lysias, the chief mili-
war-cry: "Whosoever is for God
and His holy law, let him follow
me," and the summons was an-
swered by all the Assideans (as
the loyal Jews were called). Un- 'I
able to fight the enemy openly,
they hid in mountain passes and
whenever circumstances were at
all favorable they made sudden
and repeated attacks upon the,
Syrians, forcing their way into ,
cities and villages, where they put
the Hebrew apostates to death and
destroyed their heathen temples
and altars. The Assideans and
. their followers met in the syna-
gogues and sought inspiration in
their readings in the Torah and
the Book of the Prophets. When
they met small bands of Greeks
on the road they slew them, but
would not fight against odds, and
rather than risk an encounter with
bands more numerous than them-
selves they would flee in haste to
In felicitating the Jewish Commun-
ity upon this occasion, we also extend
them a cordial invitation to visit our
Showroom.
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