When God Steps In

A few days before Christians gather to commemorate the nativity, Jewish people the world over will celebrate Hanukkah (December 8–16), which memorializes Israel’s deliverance from the infamous Seleucid monarch Antiochus IV, who ruled from 175 B.C. to 164 B.C. This king aspired to destroy Judaism, annihilate the Jewish people, and install pagan worship. In the end, God thwarted his ambitions