America latish Pendical eater CLIFTON ATENUII - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO •• ■ •111111i DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle December 24, 1943 Light On Chanukah The quaint origin of Latkes is saga. The writers were followers illumination for the Temple in Jerusalem. The Menorah in the the most popular Chanukas deli- of the Maccabeans. The 25th (lay of the Hebrew Temple was seven-branched but racy is supposed to be the pan- Director of Bnai Brith Publicity month of Kislev, on which we cele- because it was forbidden to repro- cakes hastily prepared by the Jew- Among the many explanations additional one on each successive brate the first (lay of Chanukah, duce the scared golden Menorah ish women for the soldiers of Mac- advanced for the origin of the (lay of the festival, but once it was sacred to the pagan Greeks of the Temple for ritual or other cabeus when they halted for rest was customary to light eight cand- pursuing the troops of the name Chunakah is that it comes les on the first (lay and to reduce before it became a Jewish fes- purposes, the Chanukah Menorah while Syrians. So strengthened were the tival. Antiochus Epiphanes, the is not seven-branched. from Chanok, or Enoch, a charac- the number one each successive In the light of the proscription Maccabean warriors by those pan- Greek ruler who is the villian of ter in Genesis, the great-great- night. the Chanukah story, offered a on imitating the Menorah, the cakes, that Judas Maccabeus is It was once the custom to place burnt offering in the Temple of Jews of old fashioned a lamp of supposed to have decreed that great grandson of Adam, who lived 365 years, and who is associated the Chanukah lights outside the Jerusalem on that (lay three years similar shape for the Chanukah Jews should cat latkes on Chan- by mystics with light because his house. before the Maccabeans instituted service by utilizing the Menorah ukah. The traditional Chanukah drei- The kindling of Chanukah lights Chanukah. years on earth equalled the num- motif and adapting it to the needs Weddings may take place on of an eight-day festival by means dol's four Hebrew letters on each ber of days of the sun's journey. was prohibited in the third cen- Chanukah literally means dedi- tury of the Christian era in Per- Chanukah, but not on Purim, al- of a lamp of four semi-circles in- side—Nun, Gimmol, Hay and Shin, cations, the dedication having ref- sia because the fire-worshiping though both are minor festivals stead of three, with the central awroerdstheNeisnsitiGalosdooi f HtohyechHesbhroenwl, erence to the ancient Temple in Magians, to whom fire was sacred, in the Hebrew calendar, shaft used for the Shammash. Bnai Brith was the first Jewish meaning "a great miracle occur- Jerusalem which was re-dedicated were in power. "Moaz-Tzur," the familiar hymn Chanukah is the only Jewish that is sung after the kindling of organization in the United States red there," the miracle being the after the triumph of the Jews over festival based on a Jewish tri- the Chanukah lights, is not a Jew- to use the seven-branched Menorah eight days during which the oil their oppressors. Chanukah is observed for eight umph of arms against its enemies. ish melody but an adaptation of as its official emblem. The Menorah burned in the Temple. Jerusalem was liberated from an old German folk song of the has been the symbol of Bnai Brith (lays because of the tradition that a cruse of oil found in the Tem- the Turks on Chanukah in 1917, Middle Ages. This German tune from the time it was founded in ple after the Jewish victory burned General Allenby having entered has also been utilized by Ch ri s- 1813. Every Bnai Brith meeting Sincere Chanukah Greetings! for eight days, although there was the city during the Feast of tian s, Martin Luther having era. room has a Menorah and this sym- bol is used on stationery, litera- lights. only enough oil for one day. ployed it for his chorale. One of The story of Chanukah does not the poems in Lord Byron's "He- tune, publications, books, pins and The first day of Chanukah can never occur on a Tuesday. This appear in the Old Testament but brew Melodies," — "On Jordan's banners. In the Bnai Brith ritual the year it fell on Wednesday, Dec. 22. is recounted in the pod-Biblical Banks"—was set to the music of Today we light one candle on Books of the Maccabees, all writ- "Moaz Tzur" by the great poet's seven lights of the Menorah are illuminated to the accompaniment the first day of Chanukah and an ten in Greek by Palestinian, Alex- Jewish friend, Isaac Nathan. One of the monarchs of the Cha- of a special prayer. The lights, andrian and Cyrenese Jewish writ- zars, a South Russian people who in order, stand for Light, Peace, ers within a century after the were converted to Judaism in the Truth, Benovelence, Brotherly A Joyous Chanukah to All! events portrayed in the Chanukah eighth century, was named Chan- Love and Harmony, the latter (Across from Fisher and three being the three virtues which ukah. The name of Maccabeus, hero of make up Bnai Brith's motto. General Motors Bldgs.) The Menorah remained a sym- Sincere Chanukah Greetings! the Chanukah story, has been pre- served in the name of many Jew- bol of the Jewish people until ish sports groups, notably the Mac- Medieval times when the six-point- TR. 2-8496 acbi movement, but the original ed Star of David came into vogue Judas Maccabeus and his broth- as a Jewish emblem. Detroit's Reliable Dealers in errs fought against the Hellenis- COAL and COKE tic spirit of athletics. 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