Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel discusses the shooting at Brown University on 'Fox Report.'

Two centuries before the birth of Christ, Judah Maccabee led a revolt by Jews against the Greek-Syrian forces in order to reclaim the city of Jerusalem and reoccupy the Second Temple, a successful revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Everyone knows what followed — that there was only enough oil to provide light for one day, but a miracle from God caused it to burn for eight days, allowing the Maccabees time to find more oil.

As a Jewish child growing up, Hanukkah was my favorite holiday, and I was surprised to discover that it is not one of the most religious holidays on the Jewish calendar, overshadowed by Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Rosh Hashanah (when we pray for God’s beneficence over the next year), Passover (when we pray for the miracle that God passed us over and liberated Jews from their Egyptian slave masters), and Shavuot (when we commemorate receiving the Torah from God). But Hanukkah was not my favorite because of the presents we received each night, but rather because of the miracle itself.

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