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America's corrosive obsession with scarcity Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Earlier this month, my family and I celebrated Hanukkah, which commemorates the victory of one side in a complex civil war and the restoration of the Jerusalem Temple in the war's aftermath. But the focus of the celebration — pushed heavily by the early rabbis who wanted to mute the nationalistic and sectarian sides of the holiday — is on a minor-sounding miracle. When they set out to rededicate the Temple, the Maccabees found only enough oil for one day, but they neede...

Hanukkah's true meaning is about Jewish survival The Conversation 12/14/2020 Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross © www.shutterstock.com Every December Jews celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish holiday. While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in America today of what one might refer to as Hanukkah kitsch, this assessment misses the social and theological significance of Hanukkah within Judaism itself. Let’s consider the orig...

sufganiyot. As soon as the Israeli Hanukkah doughnuts start appearing in bakeries at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Kislev, weeks before the festival, Kent launches into his tastings. He samples the gamut, from the ubiquitous red jelly-filled to the decadent halva or dulce de leche-flavored, at gas stations or at high end patisseries. “I never eat an entire donut” he wrote via e-mail. By the time Hanukkah actually starts, he’s done with doughnuts and has latched on to latkes. Of course, each oily food in Kent’s annual routine is a traditional Chanuka treat among Jewish communiti...

Rabbi Barry Marks: 'Not by might and not by power' Rabbi Barry Marks In 164 BCE, a ragtag coalition of Jewish nationalists and pietists succeeded in driving out the forces of the Syrian king Antiochus from the Jerusalem Temple, the focal point of Jewish religious identity in ancient times, and in rededicating the sanctuary to the worship of God. That ceremony of rededication is the origin of the festival of Chanukah (from the Hebrew word meaning “dedication” or “consecration”), an eight-day holiday which Jews are observing this week. Antiochus, who ruled one of the successor states to...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, What relates an enemy of Judah Maccabee to a gateway into the Jerusalem Temple? According to II Maccabees 14:28 General Nikanor, who Josephus calls governor of Samaria, marched against Judah Maccabee at the Syrian king’s command, and threatened to destroy Jerusalem and to turn the sanctuary ...