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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday's forgotten heroes: Women

  • Written by Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
imageA Jewish woman lights a candle for the festival of Hanukkah at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem.Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.

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