Defending Maoz Tsur https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/11/defending-maoz-tsur/

November 29, 2013 | Ismar Schorsch
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The final stanza of the Hanukkah song, calling for divine retribution against Israel’s enemies, has been heartily—but wrongly—maligned. (1988)

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