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https://www.facebook.com/TippingPointonOAN/videos/807831386035907/ Enough to make your head explode

13 Hanukkah Facts Every Jew Should Know http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/3840625/jewish/13-Hanukkah-Facts-Every-Jew-Should-Know.htm

What Does "Maccabee" Mean? The word Maccabee has become synonymous with the small band of Jewish freedom fighters who freed Judea from the Syrian-Greek occupiers during the Chanukah saga in the Second Temple period (read about the Maccabees here). http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/3860786/jewish/What-Does-Maccabee-Mean.htm

Three Lights: Hanukkah, Shabbat and Havdallah Understanding Judaism’s requirement to generate light on three different occasions. http://www.aish.com/h/c/t/dt/Three-Lights-Hanukkah-Shabbat-and-Havdallah.html?s=mm

Happy Chanukah

Hanukkah: 5 Holiday Lessons to Unwrap! The Festival of lights by Rob Kerby, Senior Editor About 160 years before the historic events that Christians celebrate at Christmas, the Jewish people were struggling under the oppressive occupation of a Syrian-Greek invader, Antiochus IV. Delighting in the perverse, he sacrificed a pig in to his pagan gods in the Jewish Temple, forbade Israel from observing their faith in they way they had for centuries – ever since Moses came down from Mount Sinai. Furthermore, Antiochus was determined to blot out Hebrew culture. Alarmed, a small group, the Maccabees, inspired a rebellion. Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/Love-Family/Holidays/Hanukkah/Hanukkah-5-Holiday-Lessons-to-Unwrap.aspx