Happy (C)ha(n)nuk(k)a(h)!

Happy Thanksgivukkah!

Урок истории от эллинствующих:

http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/186146/thanksgivukkahs-shared-dirty-secret/

While the Maccabees fought against oppressive laws that outlawed traditional Jewish practices like circumcision and observing the Sabbath, once in power under the Hasmonean dynasty, they forced conversions on and even killed modern Jews known as Hellenists.
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It is a disservice to ignore or sanitize the history of forced religious and cultural assimilation against the Native Americans and Hellenized Jews around 160 BCE.

Однако, пытливый читатель желает знать:

If they had forced conversions, it would have been on non-Jews to be Jews. As for persecuting modern Jews, that too is a misnomer. How modern were these Jews who lived several thousands of years ago? The Maccabees killed non-religious Jews who were anti-religious Jews who sided with Rome to eliminate religious Jews. That means non-religious Jews who wanted to seize all the property of religious Jews and kill off the religious Jews. In other words, the Maccabees killed in self defense.