Chanukah is a celebration practiced by people of the Jewish faith. Chanukah is celebrated from November 30th to December 7th every year. Chanukah is a very important holiday to the Jewish people. Chanukah is a celebration of their ancestors victory over the Pagan Seleucid Greeks to win their religious freedom. This allowed them to continue there religion and it also allowed them to live a free and independent life. The holiday lasts eight days because of an event that took place after their victory. The holiday is not as important as some other Jewish holidays because Jewish people don't celebrate war, but it is still a important event that is celebrated.
A little over two thousand years ago in the area we know as Israel there was a great struggle between the oppressive Syrian Empire and the Jews. The Jewish people have lived there for centuries but King Antiochus III took the land from King Ptolemy. Antiochus III the king of Syria wagered war with King Ptolemy of Egypt for the land we know as Israel, and Antiochus III had won it after the war. Before it was taken, the land was peaceful and serene. Antiochus III did not mind the Jews and did not cause them much trouble. He let them continue their way of life. Antiochus III was trying to endow a Syrian way of life on his new empire. The Jewish people believed in their religion and chose to stay faithful to it. Antiochus III wanted the Jews to live a Syrian way life but they refused and Antiochus did not make a big deal about it. Later on Antiochus III was beaten by the Romans in war and had to pay heavy taxes to the Romans. The heavy taxes were passed down to his people who had to furnish the gold to pay the Romans. This troubled the Jewish people. They had to come up with a whole lot of money to pay for a tax that they did not cause. When Antiochus III died, his son Seleucus IV took over and begun to oppressed the Jews. He wanted them to adopt a full Syrian way of life including religion.
Not only did he co-write and produce the film, lines from his songs from the series The Chanukah Song, became the title for this film. ... " As well as this, Sandler wanted to make a movie that focused on the real foundation of Chanukah and Christmas. ...
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The first entries in the diary tell of the lively existence of a young Jewish girl who has just turned thirteen. She seems to bubble with laughter and a love of life, playing Ping-Pong, participating in pranks, and flirting with young men. Although she seems popular with her school friends and is do...
Part 1 When I was a young girl, I lived in Warsaw Poland with my mother father and baby sister Basia. My life was happy and carefree, until the day the planes began dropping bombs from the sky and the men with the shiny black boots came marching into our city. We were scared and unsure of what woul...
"Judaism and Christianity are linked to each other with a kinship that transcends all their differences. Christianity arose in the Jewish household of faith, and its basic teachings clearly reflect the influence of its family origin. The Jewish heroes of faith from Abraham through the prophets, are also deemed as the pioneers of Christian faith; the basic teachings of Judaism concerning God and man were adopted by Christianity into its own doctrinal structure. [ ] Jews and Christians have forgotten their true relationship."1 As we look at the Jewish and the Christian faiths, both of wh...
