If the Maccabees Had Lost

Each year around December, wherever there is a significant Jewish population, television screens across America flash the greeting, "Happy Hanukkah." A strategically placed station logo is usually seen, insuring credit to the source of this community announcement. It is a gracious gesture (not to mention good public relations) to the station's Jewish population. But is that all it is? Does the

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  1. Hanukkah is notable for an even greater occurrence. Based on the timeline of Elizabeth’s and Mary’s pregnancies and births of their respective babies Hanukkah is the time when Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Certainly that’s an additional reason to associate Christ as the “light of the world.”

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