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Show Jews Celebrate the ... Festival of Lights To the Orthodox Jews, the Christmas Christ-mas period was the "Festival of Lights," called Hanukkah or Cha-nuckah. Cha-nuckah. Jewish history relates that in 165 B. C. a large force of Maccabees Mac-cabees met and vanquished an army of Syrians. Judas Maccabees entered Jerusalem Jerusa-lem with his army and found it a place of desolation. He began the work of purification and on the 25th day of Kislev it was finished and a sacred light was lit In their destruction of the temple the jacred oil was practically ex-''Kausted, ex-''Kausted, but they did And a Jar which they judged would burn one day. It lasted eight days, therefore there-fore each year the Jews decree that the eight days previous to December De-cember 25 be celebrated. |