Hanukah: Martyrs And Heroes – OpEd

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich points out that Eastern Christianity includes prayer and a festival honoring the martyrdom of a woman and her seven sons who, in the time of the Greek King Antiochus IV, refused to eat pork. The Syriac Christian Aphrahat (Adiabene c.270–c.345), a leading scholar of the Antiochian church who lived in the...