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Article: HANUKKAH DELIGHTS SEPHARDIC JEWS' HOLIDAY TREATS HAVE A RICH HISTORY, TOO.(Life and Arts)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 27, 2002
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Byline: SARA DICKERMAN Special to the P-I
Officially, the eight nights of Hanukkah commemorate a double miracle.
One was of a political sort: A band of Jews led by Judah Maccabee managed to overthrow the muscular Syrian force that occupied Jerusalem in the second century B.C. The second miracle, of a spiritual sort, was the miraculous renewal of sacred oil. When the Jews rededicated the temple after the occupation, they found just one day's worth of oil for the temple's menorah, but it burned for eight days, long enough to obtain and bless more oil.
Unofficially, in honor of that oil, Hanukkah has become a celebration of a third, culinary ...