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Photo Credit: wikimedia As Jews celebrate Hanukkah across the world, I cannot help but see many parallels between the situation in Agdam following the Second Karabakh War and the Maccabees reclaiming the Temple in Jerusalem following their revolt against the Seleucid Greeks.   For me, the recent liberation of Agdam is a modern-day parallel for our liberation of Jerusalem thousands of years ago on Hanukkah. During the Seleucid Greek oppression, the Jews were denied the right to study Torah, to do circumcision, to eat kosher food, and to observe Shabbat and holidays.  In fact, the Talmud even related that Antiochus IV even insisted upon raping Jewish brides before granting them the right to marry.  The Seleucid Greeks desecrated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, forcing the Jewish people to sacrifice pigs and other unclean animals there.   As a result of this grave oppression, all Jews who believed in the sanctity of the Torah deserted the cities and hid in the caves, w

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