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Hanukkah

December 4, 2023
A festival that symbolizes the fight against intolerance, the violent imposition of ideas, and restrictions on freedom of worship and thought.
Hanukkah

On the evening of Thursday, December 7, 2023, the Jewish people will begin the festival of Hanukkah, which tradition has given various names: the Festival of Lights, the Festival of Faith, the Festival of Dedication, and the Festival of the Miracle; It begins a few minutes after sunset with the lighting of the first of the eight candles, which—one per day and always using the central candle of the special nine-branched menorah—are lit over the following eight days.

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