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December 26, 2019

Hanukkah Is the Ultimate Celebration of Jewish Particularism

The Greeks, like their anti-Zionist heirs, sought to strike at the heart of Jewish difference.

While Judaism undoubtedly has its universalist elements, writes William Kolbrener, Hanukkah is an unabashed celebration of its particularist aspects, commemorating a national victory over an intolerant Hellenistic cosmopolitanism:

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