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Volume 14, Issue 32

"We will not back off from the annihilation of Israel, even one millimeter. We want to destroy Zionism in the world.”
—Islamic Republic of Iran Military Spokesman Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi

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The Chanukah Story Not Taught in Hebrew School: Greeks & Romans, Democrats & Republicans


** By Naomi Grant | December 3, 2021
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Let’s review the story of Chanukah—the part that’s not taught in Hebrew School.

In Hebrew School, they’ll tell you that one day, a king named Antiochus rode into town and decided all Jews had to fully assimilate into Greek culture.

Wrong.

Once upon a time around 167 BCE, many Jews lived in Modiin, which is a city that still exists in the modern country of Israel. Some Jews were traditionalists, and some were assimilated—to the point where they dressed like Greeks, competed in the gymnasia and worshipped Greek gods.

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About the speaker:

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is a senior project manager at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is former Director General of the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy. In his long career at the IDF, Brig. Gen. (res.) Kuperwasser served as Assistant Defense Attaché for Intelligence at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1992-1994) and Intelligence Officer of the IDF Central Command (1998-2001), and Head of the Analysis and Production Division of the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence (2001-2006).

He had a significant role in determining Israel’s coping methods with terror as well as regional developments, and sharing such analysis with the US and other foreign entities. Kuperwasser authored a wide variety of publications on the Middle East, terrorism and intelligence and he is an opinion contributor to the Israeli daily paper Haaretz.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Kuperwasser was the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Visiting Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution (2006-2007). Following his retirement, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Kuperwasser was VP of Global CST, a security consultancy firm.
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