Wow! Magazine by Robert J. Avrech
A Chanukah message from Simon the Maccabee:
“We have not taken a foreign land, nor did we take the property of others — for this is the inheritance of our fathers, which was for some time unjustly possessed by our enemies. But we, having the opportunity, returned to us the inheritance of our fathers.”
— First Book of the Maccabees, 15:33-34.
“לא ארץ נוכריה לקחנו ולא ברכוש זרים משלנו, כי אם נחלת אבותינו, אשר בידי אויבינו בעת מן העיתים בלא משפט נכבשה. ואנחנו כאשר הייתה לנו עת, הושיבונו נחלת אבותינו” (ספר מקבים א, טו’ לג-לד)
Antiochus IV, the evil Selecuid tyrant, sought to make Jerusalem Judenrein.
Antiochus Obama emulates the ancient Jew-hater with his evil UN decree.
The message of the Maccabees is as relevant today as it was when the glorious brothers from the tiny village of Modi’in declared war against the greatest empire in the world—and triumphed[…]
