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Show JEWS CELEHIli Cliffll FEAST Observance Will Last Until Next Wcdncsda3f; Based on Slory of Temple. The Jewish Toast of dedication, known as Chauukkah. one of the most Interesting Interest-ing festival periods In tho Jewish calendar. calen-dar. Is being observed Willi special service ser-vice in i ho synagogues of the eily. wiillo a. spirit of wholesome merriment reigns in Jewish homes" At Temple H'nal IJ'rilh Sunday afternoon after-noon at o'clock, special .sorvlee will bo held. Willi excellent music and literarv numbers. Although this will be (he principal prin-cipal synagogue observance of Hie occasion, occa-sion, the peilod will be marked each da by the lighting of candles. This observance ob-servance among lh4 Jewa Js similar to the Christmas festivities of tho Christian sects. The Jewish celebration is founded upon an historical basis. In the year JC.'i H. C.. Judas Maccabeus, one of the martial heroes in Jewish history, rocledlcated to tlio service, of Hie one God the temple at Jerusalem, after its pollution by Antloch-us Antloch-us lOplphanef.'. who had set up a shrine to his healhon god in place of the Jehovah Je-hovah altar. Just three years after this pollution, on the twenty-fifth dav of the month of Kislcy. the temple was declaimed de-claimed and rcdcdlcuted to the service of God. Many beautiful legends arc clustered around the. history of the occasion, which have helped to shape tho diameter diame-ter of the celebration. One of these is thai when the temple was redcdlcated. only a single cruse of oil was found' unpolluted, un-polluted, but, according to the legend, this oil, through Hie Intervention of God, proved to le -sulTidenl for burning Tor eight consecutive nights, until other oil, fitted for tile service, might be prepared. pre-pared. I'or ihis reason, tho .Tews, to this day light . candles in their homes for eight successive nights, in celebration of Clia-nukkah. Clia-nukkah. Otic candle is lighted on the first night, two on the second, and so on until eight are lighted oh tho eighth night. The local celebration began Wednesday Wed-nesday night, and concludes next Wednesday Wed-nesday nigh I. . |