“If this is not a wakeup call to the United Nations and to the world about the place of Israel in the family of nations, nothing will do it,” said Barry Abels, executive director of the Jewish Federation in Fort Worth and Tarrant County, whose brother lives in Israel.
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Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is less a holiday and more the commemoration of a victory by Jews in 138 BCE against a larger army of Assyrian-Greeks. At stake: whether the Jews would be forced into worshipping the Greek pantheon of gods and goddesses. Led by a group of orthodox, non-integrationist warriors called