HannukahHannukah is the winter festival of lights, the one Jewish holidaythat most non-Jewish people are familiar with. It commemorates thevictory of the Maccabee soldiers in 164 BCE over the Greek armiesthat had conquered Israel and were forbidding the Jewish people frompracticing the Jewish religion. The Jewish temple had been defiledwith animal sacrifices, and after the Maccabees cleaned and purified thetemple, they looked for holy oil (oil that had been purified in a processthat took eight d