Recent Posts Tagged With 'judaism'

• What is Hanukkah about, what is history about and what is David Brooks about?

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 06:37 in media, history, judaism, jews, anti-zionism

  David Brooks seems to have created a bit of a stir with his article about the "true" history of Hanukkah. His main controversial but more or less unarguable points are that the Maccabees were "fanatics" who along with their good deeds also did br...