Ben Crowne:

  Why Chanukah didn't happen and why that doesn't matter

Ben Crowne is programming co-Chair for Limmud Conference 2014. He writes, blogs and teaches in London; and whenever he has time left to spare, works in forensics for a global accountancy firm.

Working out the spelling is the least of your worries! Why did a Hasmonean myth about the building of the Second Temple turn into the Roman-era festival of Orot? How did we get to where we are now? And what does the menorah have to do with any of it?