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How can you compare contrast Christmas and Hanukkah?

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Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus.

Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Jews against the Seleucid Empire, and in a broader sense, victory against assimilation.

The only similarity is that both holidays occur within 28 days of each other.

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