KaYamim HaHeim KaZman HaZeh

Like in those days, so in our time.

The Temple Mount was the center of the Chanukah story just as it remains our center in the Land today. And that is because it unites the two miracles of Chanukah. And the initiative I mention below proves that. 

The first miracle is military victory achieving political autonomy. We went through years of oppression and religious intolerance that ended in mass pogroms for failure to comply with the Syrian-Greek religious code. And so we celebrate the victory of ‘the few against the many.’ 

In many ways we parallel that today with our modern state of Israel. Our state was meant to put an end to our persecution and grant us freedom to live out our identity in peace. Yet despite our........

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