From the Civil War to the first White House Hanukkah party, leaders have brought the Jewish holiday into American history
On the evening of Sunday, Dec. 18, Jews across the globe will mark Hanukkah by lighting candles. The tradition originates in the 2nd-century B.C. triumph of a ragtag group of Judean rebels known as the Maccabees over the Syrian-Greek army of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. To mark the restoration of their nation’s independence, the Maccabees rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem, using a small jug of sacred oil to light the seven-branched candelabrum known as the menorah.
For American Jews, the holiday and the candle-lighting ritual also serve to illuminate their role in the nation’s history. Louisa Hart, a 19th-century woman from Easton, Penn., recorded in her diary that George Washington once spent a winter evening in the home of her father Michael Hart, whom she described as “a Jew reverencing and strictly observant of the Sabbath and Festivals.
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