{"id":54166,"date":"2023-12-09T18:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54166"},"modified":"2023-12-11T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T22:25:11","slug":"happy-hanukkah-and-a-hug-to-the-jewish-community-in-times-of-great-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/09\/happy-hanukkah-and-a-hug-to-the-jewish-community-in-times-of-great-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hanukkah and a hug to the Jewish community in times of great pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During these days, Jewish communities around the world celebrate Hanukkah, their beloved and familiar Festival of Lights.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/19\/to-die-with-dignity-fighting-this-is-how-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-was\/\">\"To die with dignity, fighting\": this is how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/05\/10\/zog-nit-kein-mol-a-beautiful-song-full-of-hope-arising-from-the-horror-of-the-holocaust\/\">'Zog nit kein mol': a beautiful song full of hope arising from the horror of the Holocaust<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This year, Hanukkah is colored by <strong>great pain: that of the largest massacre that the Jewish community has suffered since the Holocaust<\/strong>, at the hands of Hamas terrorists. A massacre driven by a monster of hate that we thought defeated, but that unfortunately has re-emerged with force: antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>I am Catholic and I feel a special affection for the Jewish community, our \"older brothers\", as Pope Saint John Paul II defined them. <strong>I feel every attack on the Jewish community as an attack on my people, because you are<\/strong>, because the root of Western culture is Judeo-Christian and what the people of Israel are suffering is a new act of barbarism against our civilization. For this reason I send you a big hug and all my love. <strong>Happy Hanukkah to the entire Jewish community! Shalom Aleichem, may peace be with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: iStock.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these days, Jewish communities around the world celebrate Hanukkah, their beloved and familiar Festival of Lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10712],"tags":[20307,13443,12605],"class_list":["post-54166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-eng","tag-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-on-october-7-2023","tag-hanukkah","tag-judaism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}