The Chanukah Rebellion: Did the Jews Really Win?

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  1. The reason I would say the Jews did not win has less to do with the Greeks, and more to do with the Jews. It is easy to see that the Hasmonean Dynasty was the beginning of the end of the second commonwealth. The Jewish Kings just became more corrupt, the Jews started revolting against each other and there was little love between them until the destruction of the second Temple. Hardly something to celebrate.

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Henry Abramson serves as Dean of the mighty Avenue J campus of Touro College. A specialist in Jewish history and thought, he is the author of several works, most recently Torah from the Years of Wrath 1939-1943: The Historical Context of the Aish Kodesh. His online lectures in Jewish history are available at henryabramson.com.