To juxtapose the story of chanukah and how the Greeks tired to convert the Jews with the history of corperate America and the threats of both

מטרה: החניך יבין  שלכל אחד יש זכות לשמוע ולהשמיע את דבריו ודעותיו שלו ושל האחר.

To teach the chanachim that the source of “tzionut” in Hebrew literally is “tzion” – one of the names of Yerushalyim. Tzionut is a longing for Yerushalyim.  But that is not how we have come to understand it.  We understand it as a love of

Israel, (Yerushalyim included in that) encompassing that of both modern day Midinat

Israel and of the “Old”

Israel.