Dr Wingnut

Day: December 29, 2012

  • Eight Candles, Nine Lives

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    Dr Wingnut
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    We parents work so hard to relay the historical and spiritual import of religious holidays.  No, we explain, Hanukkah is not primarily about gift giving; it’s about a long-ago freedom struggle.  The eight-day winter holiday celebrates the successful resistance of the Jews against King Antiochus IV of Syria and the restoration of the Second Temple…