• Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the better half of Vice President Kamala Harris, bungled the history behind Hanukkah Monday in a since-deleted social media post where he attempted to explain why Jewish people celebrate the ancient miracle.
• “Doug Emhoff apparently thinks the Macabees were hiding out in some sort of subterranean lair with an oil lamp,” Will Scharf, a former federal prosecutor and current candidate for Missouri attorney general, wrote on X. “This is emphatically not the story of Hanukkah.”
• “Reconsecration of the Temple and recommitment to biblical values and teachings is the story of Hanukkah,” he added.

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