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Beginning Thursday evening December 10th, Jews across the world will begin celebrating Chanukah. What most people (even Jews) know about Chanukah is either totally wrong,  half the story, or peppered with charming but untrue legends.  Despite what you may have been told, the meaning of Chanukah is not “let’s come up with a holiday around Christmas time, so Jewish kids can also get presents in December (although a liberal Rabbi once unsuccessfully tried to convince me that was true).  It is also false that the real Hanukkah meaning is,  “Let’s come up with a holiday with many different English spellings so we can drive the Gentiles crazy.”

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