What is Hanukkah?
Thursday, December 5th, 2002Some think that Hanukkah was developed to simply provide a Jewish substitute for Christmas. It might surprise you to know that the Jews begam celebrating Hanukkah 164 years before Christ. This is documented by Jewish historian, Josephus, and the Apocryphal books of I & II Maccabees. Here is the background. In 167 B.C. a cruel […]