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The Hanukkah lesson being taught, Sklare noted, was no longer reverence to God for performing a miracle but rather the triumph over religious intolerance--a perfect message for liberal America in the age of the civil rights movement.
The Macabbees cleansed the Temple of Hellenistic idols and the blood of pagan sacrifices; the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication) commemorates their victory.
Analysts see a paradigm shift: People no longer concentrate their gift-giving around Christmas and Hanukkah.
I absolutely thought, until last year, that Hanukkah celebrated the loaves and fishes being miraculously lit by an oil lamp.
By tradition, family members play with the dreidel , a four-sided spinning top, and children receive Hanukkah gelt (chocolate coins covered with gold foil) and other presents.