OPINION: This Hanukkah, we need a Jewish George Washington to fight for freedom
In celebration of the first day of Hanukkah, Jewish dad of two and creator of the ‘Mensch on a Bench’ joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss how he started his business.Hanukkah is a well-known holiday in America, but that’s pretty much only because it often falls close to Christmas., it is not considered a major holiday, and it’s actually not a story even told in the Torah .
In short, the story of Hanukkah is a perennial one spanning time and place, for it is the human chronicle of the tension between revelation and"reason," tradition and"progress," national sovereignty and universalism. Some of the Jews accommodated. These Hellenized Jews, whether for status or because of ideology, willingly collected the Greek taxes, performed the pagan sacrifices, and undermined Judean culture. But the Maccabees, a loose coalition of some of the priestly clans, decided to fight back. These Jewish patriots launched a guerrilla campaign that caused the Seleucid king, Antiochus, to lead an army of almost 50,000 men into Judea.
When the Jews returned to Jerusalem, they smashed the statue of Zeus, cleansed and rededicated the Temple, and relit the menorah. But they did something more. They banished the Jewish priests and nobles who had abandoned the Jewish people to aid the Greeks.Today, elites embrace a form of Marxism that divides people into classes and worships the power of the state. Given their influence, this is an overt and existential threat to democracy.
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