This holiday is widely celebrated as a joyous celebration of the victory of the Jews against their Greek oppressors, and the miracle of the oil burning for eight days in the Temple. However, the rabbis, over the past two thousand years, have had issues with celebrating a military victory over a spiritual one. Evidence of this is their refusal to include The Book of Maccabees in the Hebrew Bible. (Christians did that!) I will talk about the implications of this ambivalent view of the holiday, and what it might say about our world today.

http://civilwarbummer.com/new-york-patriot-or-feminist… Warren Rosenberg, Professor of English, emeritus, is the John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric, emeritus, Wabash College.

Musicians are Skylark and Larry Prather.