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Presents
The Miami
Boys' Choir
in our
First Annual Chanukah Concert
Saturday Evening December 10, 1988 8:00 p.m.
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Groves High School
20500 W. 13 Mile Road
(At Corner of Evergreen
Birmingham, MI
Tickets
$12 with reservations
$15 at the door
$8 for children 6-12 years old
with reservations
$10 at the door
LIMITED SEATING
STILL AVAILABLE
Patrons:
$180 Four Tickets — Reserved Seating
Sponsors:
$100 Two Tickets — Reserved Seating
Donors:
$50 Two Tickets — Reserved Seating
children under six not admitted
For reservations or further information please call
Machon L'Torah at 313-967-0888 or 967-0887
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Israeli children light a chanukiah.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1988
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hanukah, which re-
calls the rededication
of the ancient Temple
in Jerusalem following the
victory of the Maccabees over
the Syrians, is celebrated for
eight days.
According to the ancient
legend, it is because only one
clean jar of oil was found for
the Eternal Light and it was
sufficient for only one day.
But by a miracle, it lasted
eight days. An old Yiddish
jest based upon this explana-
tion asks, "For such a little
bit of oil, such a big festival?"
The reason that so much
emphasis is placed upon the
Chanukah festival is that it
commemorates the first suc-
cessful revolt in history on
behalf of religious liberty. The
abiding miracle of this
festival as stamped in Jewish
observance reminds us of the
value of religious freedom in
our lives.
The spirit of Chanukah
animates the Magna Carta,
and the Declaration of the
Rights of Man, and there is a
parallel to the Maccabean
revolt in the Declaration of
Independence. For without
the willingness of the early
Jews to fight for their
religious rights and the in-
spiration of Chanukah, these
great movements on behalf of
human freedom might never
had been born. Not only Jews,
therefore, but all mankind
must be grateful for the
abiding miracle of Chanukah.
During Chanukah in 1960,
the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee
presented a menorah to the
king and queen of Denmark,
in appreciation of the Danish
king's efforts to save the Jews
of his country from Hitler's
death camps. At a time when
Adolf Eichmann and his
wickedness were at the center
of world attention, the
heroism and Maccabean love
of justice and the Christian
leader of Denmark were fit-
tingly recalled in gratitude
and reverence.
This is the reason for the
gift. When the Germans in-