Events for Thu, December 17, 2020
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5:30 pm
“Come Light the Menorah”: Communal AC Candle Lighting
Let’s brighten up the Upper West Side as a community! We will gather together (masked and socially distanced, of course) on the steps of AC on West End Avenue between 100th and 101st for a communal Hanukkah candle lighting. The early bird gets the latke!
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Greeks and Jews In the Ancient World (it’s not just the story of Chanukah.)
The Greek general Alexander’s conquest of the Near East in the 4th century B.C.E. introduced Jews to Greeks, and Greeks to Jews. It was sometimes an uneasy and violent political confrontation (think of Judah Maccabeus and the story of Hanukah), but it just as often gave rise to a cultural interaction that forever changed the... Read more »
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