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A Hanukka story... for Purim
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Jerusalem Post
03-20-2008
Headline: A Hanukka story... for Purim
Byline: STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 16
Thursday, March 20, 2008 -- Today's tensions on the border between Gaza and Sinai are hardly new. There was conflict at Rafiah - at the south end of the Gaza Strip - 2,225 years ago. At that time it was the border between the Seleucids and Ptolemies, between the empires of Antiochus III (the Great) and Ptole...
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