December 13, 1955 (vol. 66, iss. 64) • Page Image 5
…THE MICHIGAN DAILY Candle Lighting Marks Chanukah Celebration By JUDITH GREENBERG Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, is being celebrated this week all over the world in Jewish homes and temples in commem- oration of the, expulsion of the Syrians from the Temple of Jeru- salem. The holiday stems from the heroic battles under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus, 'when the, Jews drove the Hellenized Syrians out of Jerusalem in the year 162 B.C. Ma...…