Daily Herald: Fighting ‘darkness of intolerance’: JCC Chicago celebrates Hanukkah, community

Jews across the suburbs and world will celebrate a more than 2100-year-old miracle starting Sunday. Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, begins Sunday evening and concludes the evening of Monday, Dec. 26. It recalls the victory of a militarily weak Jewish people over the Syrian-Greeks who had overrun ancient Israel and sought to impose restrictions on the Jewish way of life and prohibit religious freedom.