Chanukah is a holiday that is celebrated by lighting of candles for eight nights, giving gifts and eating traditional fried foods. It is telling of the story of a small band of Jews who defeated the superior Greek army that ruled the Holy Land in the second century BC and returned the Holy Temple to its people. This year the holiday begins on Sunday evening, Dec. 22.

Upon entering the temple, they hoped to light the seven-branched temple menorah with the needed ritual oil but found only a…