Crowdsource: Maccabaeus: The War for Judea
The light of the menorah, delicious potato pancakes, spinning dreidels and chocolate coins…these are the things we’ve come to associate with Hanukkah. International political intrigue, a holocaust in the ancient Middle East, and a seven-year holy war where Temple priests defied one of the most powerful empires on earth and won—for some reason, those parts tend to get whitewashed, glossed over, or forgotten entirely. Not any more.
