Hanukkah
The almost-biblical Megillah of Antiochus.
Fighting to preserve Jewish particularism.
The first mention of the holiday game appears in the 19th century.
The Hasmoneans preferred the divine understanding to their own.
Maimonides, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and a medieval diagram.
The Scroll of Antiochus in its many forms.
Two German rabbis come out of hiding.
The holiday’s uncomfortable lesson.
What makes this miracle different from the other miracles?
Lessons from ceramic shards.
“In exile, not only is history unfinished, but so is poetry.”
And the origins of myths about it.
A Jewish democracy activist joins us to talk about the oppression of the Uighurs in western China, and whether the Jewish experience has any survival strategies to offer.