Chanukah marks an event that occurred over 2,100 years ago, when a small but determined group of Jews known as the Maccabees triumphed over the mighty Greek empire, which sought to suppress their faith and culture.   The victory was not only a miraculous military achievement but a spiritual one, marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after it had been desecrated. Wanting to light the temple's Menorah—a seven-branched candelabra—they discovered that all the s