Boston-Area Rabbi Urges Hannukah Visibility After Australia Attack

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ramby Mandy Krinsk gave the Kabbad Jewish Center, and Needham says,
this is not the time to withdraw in fear.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
With the events that just happened. This is even more
important to stam proud to put those manoas on the windows,
to come to a public Manora lighting and solidarity with
the Jews of Australia.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
With Manora's in every window. Hanuka has always been a
public facing holiday and has become much more so since
the Kabbad movements pushed for outdoor public Manora lightings in
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
So the candle represents the light, represents the Jewish soul,
the Jewish spark, the deepest parts of who we are.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The holiday commemorates the Jewish military victory over the celuted
Greeks in the second century and a series of ensuing miracles,
including oil enough for only one day lasting for eight instead,
hence eight candles on the manora.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
The Greek Syrians did not want to kill the Jews.
They wanted to kill our spirit. They didn't want us
to practice our religion. It was a war against the spirit.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
The rabbi says, though shocked and horrified, this is a
time to celebrate even more proudly in the face of
the attack. To be even more visible.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
You know, we can't cower or give in to the
terrorism or anti semitism. Have to do even more, spread,
even more

Speaker 1 (01:01):
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