Phil Wolff<p>I celebrate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chanukah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chanukah</span></a> for its 2191 year old struggle for religious freedom and our people's long fight against despots and tyrants.</p><p>We teach children that long ago and far away we resisted occupiers. We fought to pray, to speak, to eat and live as our people chose, not as the Seleucid governor dictated. Families died to keep kosher. Families took up arms and invented guerilla tactics that defeated local remnants of Alexander the Great's empire. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maccabees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maccabees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a></p>