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Story of Chanukah

Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Freedom-Tower-Construction, Kabul-Mayor, Rome, Maccabees, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Kabul, Story of Chanukah, Menorah, Afghanistan Corruption, Story-of-Chanukah, Antiochus, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Chanukah, Greece, Dead-or-Alive, Freedom Tower, Judah Maccabee, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan-Counterinsurgency, Orin Hatch, Orin Hatch Chanukah Song, Somalia, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hannukah, World News
Aaron Zelinsky

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.

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Guilt, Gelt, and The Gift of Giving

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Holiday Shopping, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Christmas, Presents, Ornaments, Story of Chanukah, Christianity, Menorah, Christmas Shopping, Jews, Judaism, Jewish Culture, Religion and Values, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

Holiday compassion, which most of us value but seldom practice, is the opposite of holiday commercialism, which most of us practice but never value.

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Bah, Hitchens

Daniel Radosh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Jews, Religion, Hanukkah, Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, Chanukah, God Is Not Great, Judaism, Story of Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Christopher Hitchens Hanukkah, Story of Chanukah, Media News
Daniel Radosh

Christopher Hitchens spreads a little holiday cheer today with an essay denouncing Hanukkah. Like all Hitchens' work on religion, it's smart, witty and totally frustrating.

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