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Posts tagged as “Christmas”

What is a holiday tree?

I am writing to protest the second annual “holiday” tree lighting. It is repulsive and wrong to attempt to impose a religious celebration upon the students of Stevens Institute of Technology, openly disregarding the beliefs of those among us who are atheist or agnostic.

The meaning behind the holidays

HANNUKAH
Is it Hanukah? Or Hanukkah? Or Chanukkah? Regardless of its spelling, its history is unambiguous. If you take a gander into Books 1 and 2 of Maccabees, you’ll find the story of the Maccabees (Jewish for “hammer”), a small band of Jewish fighters who were subjugated by the Syrian Greeks.