TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1963

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While Christians are celebrating
the Christmas season, the Jews
celebate Hanukkah, the Festival
of the Lights, which occurs during
the Hebrew month of Chislev.
Like Christmas, this holiday is
one of rejoicing and gift giving.
In the year 165 B.C., Israel was
ruled by the Seleucids, a Greco-
Syrian group, descended from one
of Alexander the Great's legions.
Defile Temple
Worshipping idols of Zeus, these
intruders defiled the temple in
Jersusalem, tearing down the
priests' chambers, ruining the
sanctuary and profaning the altar.
Judas Maccabeus, a leader of
the Jews, assembled his brothers
and an army and drove the Seleu-
cids out of the Temple.

Celebrate Hanukkah,

Festival of Lights

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The people and the army rebuilt
the altar, brought lighted candle-,
sticks, burnt offerings and in-
cense. They burned the incense,f
sacrificed and feasted for eight
days. The eternal light was re-l
newed in the Temple.
Over 2100 Years
The religious celebration is in-
dividualistic, and each family us-
ually has its own replica of a;
Menorah or seven branched can-
dlestick. This practice was estab-
lished by the School of Hillel, so
that interest in the holiday would
not lag. While the candles are lit,
a prayer is said.
Generous Holiday
Hanukkah is one of the most
generous holidays. On each day

of the festival the child receives
one gift, a total of eight gifts.
The children also invented a
game called dreidel using a spin-
ning metal or wooden top. Hebrew
letters are engraved on the top
and the winner is decided by
which letter the top eventually
rests on.
The Festival of Light also has
a legendary source. When the
Macabees defeated the Seleucids
and came to the Temple to light
the eternal light, they could find
no oil. Finally under one of the
benches a small quantity of the
special oil was found.
They feared this would last only
a short time, but it lasted for
eight days, until more oil could be
secured. Thus the eight days of
dedication and celebration.

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By JUDITH BARCUS
the destruction of the Temple by1
There are a lot of nasty thins thle .ornans. Rabbis who were
to be said about how the Ameri- working to establish friendly rela-
can Jew has christianized Hanuk- tions with the Rormans didn't like
kah. to be reiinded of the successful
suburbia abounds with a new Maccabean revolt. So, this Jewish
tree called a "Hanukkah Bush" society tried to ignore Hanukkah.
and somewhere lurks a rare gift- According to Hayyim Schuss'
bearing individual called the book, "The Jewish Festivals," Jews
"Hanukkah-man." in the Middle Ages and the 19th,
Jews have not been out done century Jews of eastern Europe'
by Christians in this business of developed Hanukkah traditions of
commercializing holidays. their own.
Needs of Society Rvdigious Explanation
But these criticisms should not In the Middle Ages Hanukkah
be directed only at contemporary was changed from a celebration of
Jews. Hanukkah has been used an historical event to a religious
and misused to fit the needs of holiday when Jews offered relig-
society since the Maccabee's vic- ious explanations for the folk cus-
tory over the Hellenistic Syrians. tom of lighting eight candles.
The story of Hanukkah was not In the 1911 century eastern
popular with Jewish leaders after European Jews elaborated the

festival of Hanukkah, possibly be-
cause they grew impatient wait-
ing for the spring holidays.
Enrich Holiday
Stories are told of the joy that,1
Hanukkah brought to the schooll
children who were tired of stay-
ing indoors all wjiter and study-
ing their prayers. The eastern Eu-
ropeans enriched the holiday with
some of the games, charades, and
the potato pancakes now associat-
ed with it.
Following this trend of adapta-
tion, Jews have twisted and mold-
ed Hanukkah to fit their needs
in a Christian society, and have
been severely criticized for this.

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