OPINION: Hanukkah made western civilization possible
In celebration of the first day of Hanukkah, Jewish dad of two and creator of the ‘Mensch on a Bench’ joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss how he started his business.Hanukkah would be unknown
Hanukkah commemorates the incredible Jewish victory over far more numerous and powerful Greek forces in 164 BC. In 168 BC, the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, launched a horrific campaign against Judaism. First, Antiochus did not seek to annihilate, as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did two thousand years later and the Islamic regime in Iran does today. He sought to annihilateSecond, among all the religions under his rule, Antiochus persecuted only Judaism. His Greek regime had no problem with pagan religions. It was Judaism that disturbed Antiochus and the Seleucids.
So, he decreed that Judaism be abolished. He erected statues of Greek gods in the Jews’ holy temple, put to death Jewish parents who ritually circumcised their eight-day old sons — hanging the murdered Jewish child around the mother’s neck — forced Jews to eat pork, offered illicit sacrifices, burned Torah scrolls, executed Jews who observed the sabbath, and dedicated the holy temple to Zeus.
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