The holiday centers on a story of improbable survival more than 2,000 years old: The victory of the Maccabees over their oppressors, the rededication of their Temple in Jerusalem, the lighting of a holy lamp that should have burned out in a day, but instead, miraculously, lasted for eight. BROOKLINE — We’ve come to the last days of the Festival of Lights, in the last days of an especially dark year. Today, too many Jewish families carry more recent stories of improbable survival. Among those gathering to light candles this week are many who would not be here were it...