On the first night of Hanukkah on Tuesday, as the shloshim period of thirty days of mourning were marked since the horrific Har Nof synagogue massacre, around 2,000 women gathered in the Jerusalem Great Synagogue to commemorate the victims and try to learn from tragedy to better the world.
The event, entitled "Women to Women: United to Change the World," was meant to celebrate the Hanukkah holiday commemorating how the Maccabees rededicated the Second Temple over 2,000 years ago in fighting off the Greek occupiers, and learn from it to personally rededicate ourselves.
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