How a Beautiful Widow Defeated a General and Inspired a Hanukkah Tradition...

Detail of Judith. Christifano Allori, 1613You migh...  ...that owes its origins to the story of Judith and Holofernes . The account is given in the deuterocanonical boo...  ...have to do with cheese? The story goes like this: Holofernes , an Assyrian general, surrounded the city of Beth...  ...n God's protection...

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