Many people are rightly concerned about historical revisionism – as well as making some stories “politically correct.” It may be worth pointing out, however, that our tradition engages, from time to time, in historical revisionism, and that is most true around the current holiday of Hanukah. In this insightful piece in The New York Times by David Brooks we glean the historical reality of Hanukah:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/opinion/11brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Leslie Smith Rosen
Dean of General Studies
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