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Check out the speakers on social media, their websites and other platforms. Come with questions or submit in advance using the Series registration link. Justice in Transition series partners are Portage Lake District Library and Michigan Tech’s Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.  The series is funded in part by the Van Evera Distinguished Lecture Series and the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “Calls for justice — for the land, for...

What is Hanukkah Hanukkah celebrates the Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greek superpower in the second century BCE, during the time of the Second Holy Temple. The Greeks emphasized external beauty, and attempted to secularize the Jews by abolishing key the Jewish practices of circumcision, Shabbat, and Torah study – under penalty of death. Many Jews (called Hellenists) began to assimilate into Greek culture, decaying the foundation of Jewish life and practice. The story of Hanukkah is about this clash of cultures. When the Greeks challenged the Jews to sacrifice a pi...