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that the Hanukkah miracle happened. The Assyrians were overthrown in Jerusalem, and according to legend, when the Jews returned to purge the temple of its alien idols and rededicate it, there was only sacred oil enough for one day's burning of the temple lamp. Yet the lamp burned eight full days...
...year in Israel there is a new mood. Stores report their "worst Hanukkah ever," and most have not even bothered to decorate their windows; large parties are few, and the hotels will have plenty of room for last-minute arrivals at their Hanukkah balls. In place of the merrymaking, Jerusalem is celebrating the kind of Hanukkah that Judah Maccabee would find to his liking...
...Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah at the Crossroads, he tries to close his accounts with Zionism with the advice that Jews should either go to Israel or renounce their religion and stop praying, "Next year in Jerusalem."* "The mission of the Wandering Jew is completed . . . There must be an end to every calvary." For his "apostasy,'' Koestler-born a Jew in Hungary-was called an anti-Semite in Britain's Jewish Chronicle, where his argument also appeared...
...Israeli ranks because of his love for a Jewish girl, sensitively played by Haya Hararit. The second tells of Michael Wager, a Jew from New York City (but, refreshingly, not from Brooklyn), who is both wounded and briefly disillusioned in an unsuccessful attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. This episode gives a cleanly realistic picture of street fighting: instead of charging pell-mell at the enemy, the Israelis advance in twos and threes, hugging the walls of houses and making quick dashes for the protection of doorways and abutments...
Died. Sir Ronald Storrs, 73, longtime Governor of Jerusalem (1917-26) and Cyprus (1926-32), author (Orientations), who was credited by T. E. Lawrence with starting the revolt of the Arabs in the desert during World War I which hastened the fall of the Turkish empire; in London...