This week, we’ll be looking at the historical background of Hanukkah and at Jewish texts that helped define the holiday but that are somewhat less well-known, including the (four!) apocryphal books of the Maccabees, the apocryphal Book of Judith, and the Scroll of Antiochus, a medieval story about Hanukkah that was read in Italian synagogues during the Middle Ages. Each has a different version or take on the Hanukkah story.

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Please contact Rabbi Jeremy at Macharjeremy@gmail.com or rabbi@machar.org for program link and access information.