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A Different Look at Christmas and Hanukka

December 18, 2009 By 2 Comments

Holidays are serious business. If you celebrate Hanukka, there’s getting the Hannukiah and the candles or oil lamps and   making sure it’s done at the right time. Then of course there is the food and no Hanukkah is complete without your latke (potato pancake) and soufganiot.

If you celebrate Christmas, it’s all about getting the decorations in place, about lighting the Christmas tree, about getting all the presents and in time. And of course it’s about Christmas dinner and pudding, depending on where you live.

And what if one of you celebrate one holiday and your partner the other? That can be serious business.

So why not take a different look at all this. Look and listen to what Walter, Peanut,  Ahmed and Jeff Dunham have to say on these holidays and some good advice.

SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL

 

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Hanukkah – Festival of Lights

December 13, 2009 By 3 Comments

During the darkest time of the year, mid-winter, is when Jews all over the world celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or the Festival of Dedication.

Hanukkah is the celebration of a miracle that took place in the year 165 BCE during the purification of the Temple in Jerusalem following the successful rebellion by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Greeks.

From around the year 200 BCE the land of Judea has been under the rule of the Seleucid Greeks. The first ruler Antiochus III was benevolent towards the Jews and had granted them the right to live according to their ancestral traditions. However, his son Antiochus IV Epiphanes turned this around, banned the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, in effect outlawing Judaism. He also banned circumcision and ordered pigs to be sacrificed in the Temple, and had a statue to Zeus installed in the Temple. [Read more...]

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