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34-(Sec III) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri, Nov. 30, "58 Candles Burn This Week for Fighting Jews !By GEORGE CORNELL . ; AawialU" Press Religion Writer Candle burn, today., for the fighting Jew, . . . - Down through history Jews are eft en seen as the people that are helplessly persecuted, exiled, seg regated and slain, but - there's another aspect to the story the fighting Jew who won't give up, no matter what the odds. That's the chapter .being cele brated today In the annual Ha nukkah observance. It marks a stubborn. Heroic, three-year war of 2,Ui years ago by small, ill-supplied . Jewish forces to save their religion.. They whipped the mightiest army then on earth. ' i , ; Contemporary Footnote' This year, there's a contempo rary footnote to the image of' the Jewish warrior.' . n ' In the Middle East, Israel has shown her fighting mettle. Wheth er one like, or dislikes her con duct, she got started by fighting eff forces outnumbering her 100-1 then warded off harassing forays, and lately carried out what she terms a reprisal invasion. ;: . "Many people art saying that Israel has produced new brand of Jew," said Rabbi Samuel M. Silver, of New York. Actually, the fighting Jew is not novelty at all.., ". (-;'V!;i '-''i': -' The Jew finds "violence repug nant...but when he Is armed with an Important- cause, when his patience has. been exhausted, and ' when he has some military ma terial....the Jei can fight." First Religions War And fight, he did, back there from 161 to 16S B.C., in the world's first great war for religious free dom. ; . - It is in memory of the soldiers of that war that the candles burn today in Jewish t synagogues and temples, songs are sung, pageants staged, tifia . exchanged, and this prayer spoken: "Not by might, but by thy power." V It is stressed that God, 'not hu man efforts alone, achieve that ancient victory, and that he is the key to attainment of all high ob jectives, i I Observed to Thursday The observance began at sunset Wednesday and lasts until next Thursday night. Military authorities still view that long-past Jewish revolt as the prototype of successful guerilla warfare, carried out from moun tains and woods, by lightning strikes, . finally shattering vastly superior forces. Its main leader, Judas Mac , eabaeus. la considered a tactical genius. -. : - He and the other. Maccabean brothers, .Jonathan . and Simon, pitted their motley troops against the armies of Syrian King Antio chus IV, who had tried to compel the Jews to be pagans and aban don their idea of one supreme God. "Judaism and also Christianity could not be alive today were It not for these efforts," said Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrsth, president of the American Hebrew Congre gations. ' - ' ' ' , ' " ' Preserved Monotheism ' For by preserving monotheism, an isolated faith in ar world of pagan myths, Judaism gave Chris tianity the foundation for its birtl. MS years later,; ' If military arms alone had ruled the day, that foundation would have been destroyed. i. ; Antichus, ruling half of the old Greek Empire, had pagan idols set up in every township in Pal estine, and sacrifices to the myth olngical Greek god, Zeus, made at the main altar of the holy temple In Jerusalem. .;.' ; " "Abomination of desolation," cried the Jews. Fear Flee U Hills ' . One old priest, Mattathias hurled himself against an official Who was trying to compel Jews to worship a pagan idot and filled him. This started it. With . his - three sons, the . Maccabees, he fled to the hills. Volunteers gathered for the up rising, and the war was on. It lasted three years, and at the end. the Jews had won their religious freedom, the temple was cleansed and the worship of one God above went on . . . and on. , Legend says the temple lamps burned for eight days m an amount of oil that normally would have lasted only one day. . 'Festival ef Lights' , . So, in the eight-day commemo ration of that occasion, the can dies glow in what is sometimes called "The festival of lights. The first Hanukkah candles were lit at sunsef Wednesday In thousands of Jewish synagogues and homes. An additional one lit each evening until on the final day, eight burn in the tapers of the "menorah a special candel brum. ' " 1 While the celebration gives the glory to God for the preservation of the faith against tyranny, also recalls that fighting Jew, figure often overlooked in the long record of Jewish oppression and disaster. ,... .Many died in the medieval ' church "Inquisition." Czarist Rus sia carried out mass pogroms araiiwt Jews. 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