We were going to put up our favorite Southie band's Christmas song, but we liked this one better.
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THE RACE REPORT WITH CRAIG BODEKER--EPISODE 1 [Video]
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PSYCHIATRY GOES INSANE
So says the author of the above opinion piece. There's some truth to what he writes, but the column suffers from over generalizations.
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COLUMN ABOUT HANUKKAH IN THE DAILY PILOT THAT MISSES THE REAL POINT
In his revisionist column in the Daily Pilot about Hanukkah, Rabbi Marc Gellman writes that in Christmas and Hanukkah we can find "meanings that unite us."
That's not what Hanukkah is about.
There are actually two messages in Hanukkah and neither one is about unity. The first is the power of just a few people to change history, and the second is that the continued existence of distinct peoples requires separation.
In brief, what happened back in history was that Antiochus IV was trying to wipe out all distinct peoples by having them blend together (read assimilate, if you wish) racially, religiously and nationally under his vision of one mankind.
One Jewish family, the Maccabees, resisted this blending and were what today we would call separatists.
As Gellman does indicate; because of the separatist (he doesn't use that word though) Maccabees, who refused to assimilate, there are still Jews in the world today.
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