Hanukkah has taken on extra significance this season because of the ongoing conflict in Israel and the anti-Israel actions on many college campuses in the United States, according to Rabbi Joe Potasnik on Newsmax Friday. 

“Hanukkah says to us that you should not be afraid to be a Jew in public,” Potasnik, the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis and the chaplain of the New York City Fire Department, told Newsmax’s “Newsline.” “Hanukkah says, we fought this battle to be recognized as Jews, not just privately, but publicly.”

But at the “so-called Ivy League schools,” Jews are being harassed, he said. 

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