Rabbi Zalmen Bernstein from Chabad Lake Arrowhead led about 75 people for the second annual lighting of the Big Bear menorah at the Village’s Christmas Tree Corner Dec. 7.
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Op-Ed: Modern-Day Armenians and The Seleucid Greeks
As Jews around the world gather to celebrate Hanukkah, we remember the great persecutions that the Jewish people experienced under the Seleucid Greeks, whose leader at that time was Antiochus IV. During the Seleucid Greek oppression, Antiochus IV outlawed Torah study, kosher food, circumcisions for babies, and the observance of Shabbat and other Jewish festivals. He placed Greek idols in Jewish places of worship and compelled the Jews to sacrifice pigs as well as other unclean animals to Greek gods inside of their holy places. It is also recorded in the Talmud that the Seleucid Greeks also used to routinely rape Jewish brides before their weddings and that it was the bravary of one Jewish woman who paraded through the streets naked in protest that sparked the Maccabean Rebellion.