I'm not jewish but I have spoken to some older jewish friends about Hanukkah and they all say that when they were kids Hanukkah was nothing. The religious importance of the holiday is very minor and the presents each day were something like a chocolate coin. It was never on the same level as Christmas. It only is now because people didn't want their kids to feel left out.
The article seems written by a self centered,sell pitying Jew.
IIRC, [ne is commanded to go into ones tent and srudy the Law (Torah) and to do so quietly. What other, non-Jews did was not the business of the Jew.
But, being a compassionate conservative, and this being Christmas as well as Hanukkah, I attempted to call the Wa a ambulance for the article author.
Operator said they were too busy.
I’d be more offended that the image that is used for the article shows a Temple Menorah and not a Hanukkah Menorah. One has 7 branches and one has 9
Happy Hanukkah!
Chanukah is a strictly Jewish holiday. It is not explicitly Biblical, shared at the insistence of other religions.
The Chanukah blessings, ending in, “[God] commanded us to kindle the Chanukah light,” is an assertion of the primacy of Judaism over Bible-only beliefs.
The last verse of the most famous traditional Chanukah song, Maoz Tzur, relates:
Wreak vengeance upon the wicked nation, On behalf of your faithful servants.
For deliverance has too long been delayed; And the evil days are endless.
O thrust the enemy into the shadows of death, and set up for us the seven shepherds.