"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!
"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!
Like Benjamin Freedman said-- "Facts are Facts". I'll add it appears you provide a constant stream of misinformation and unsubstantiated claims.