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questions/definitions from readworks article: Judaism - Hanukkah

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What does persecuted mean in the phrase: Antiochus persecuted the Jews...

subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs

How did the Jews celebrate their victory?

they re-dedicated the Temple in Jerusalem

In the Hanukkah song, what are 2 reasons that candles were lit?

thanks; pain, sacrifice, wisdom,

In this line-Light one candle for the pain they endured When their right to exist was denied.-who tried to deny the right to exist?

King Antiochus

What is Kislev?

it is a month on the Hebrew calendar (close to our November/December)

What does religion mean?

a set of beliefs about how the universe was made; involves the worship of God/gods; right/wrong behavior