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12-10-2004
In trying, as we do every year on this page, to understand Hanukkah's
magical hold on the American Jewish imagination, it's worth examining the
holiday's marvelous malleability, its Zelig-like capacity for embodying the
very values that each generation needs it to uphold.

Yes, drowning out Bing Crosby is part of the holiday's appeal, but only
part. There is so much more to celebrate: national independence, religious
freedom, rebellion against tyranny and fast gaining in popularity -- the
battle of piety against assimilation. But which to teach first?

It wasn't always so ...

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