I remember the resilience of the Maccabees - who held onto their Jewishness even in the darkest of times, even when it felt impossible to hold onto tradition. And it is not just Chanukah I include ...

Chanukah is a story of resilience ... those people were called the Maccabees. Hanukkah is a celebration of that. Also, when reclaiming the temple, Judah Maccabee led his followers to cleanse ...

Hanukkah, also spelt Chanukah, means Festival of Lights ... marks the date about two thousand two hundred years ago when the Maccabees recaptured the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and re-dedicated ...