Chanuka Among the Hellenists

If you think Chanuka is about giving presents, eating oily food and spinning dreidels, Steven Plaut is going to give you a very different idea: Of all the Jewish holidays, the one that I think best captures the contemporary Jewish zeitgeist, the one that is the most relevant to the current (and, if certain trends are not reversed, the last?) chapter in Jewish history, is Hannuka.Hannuka is, of