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Hanukkah (or Chanukah, or other spellings) is a Hebrew word meaning ‘rededication’. The festival commemorates the Jews’ struggle for religious freedom from the Greek-Syrians more than 2,000 years ago (c160BCE). Jewish practice was outlawed by King Antiochus and the Temple (on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem) was turned into an …
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