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In yesterday's Times, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks summarises the historic origins of the feast: The original festival was founded more than 2,000 years ago, when the Seleucid Greeks, under Antiochus IV, tried forcibly to hellenise the Jewish population of Israel, banning the most important Jewish practices, defiling the Temple and setting up a statue of Zeus in its precincts.
The lights of Hanukah and Europe's shadowed past Burke's Corner 2008
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In yesterday's Times, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks summarises the historic origins of the feast: The original festival was founded more than 2,000 years ago, when the Seleucid Greeks, under Antiochus IV, tried forcibly to hellenise the Jewish population of Israel, banning the most important Jewish practices, defiling the Temple and setting up a statue of Zeus in its precincts.
Archive 2008-12-01 Burke's Corner 2008
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