Jerusalem and Hellenization

Orthem alexander the great comes on the scene, conquers much of the known world. One of his generals inherits the area where the jewish community live. The greeks had a programme that they called hellenization. So they would forbid them to practise the tora as away had commanded them. Outlawed circumscision and did not allow kosha diet according to the scriptures. And their ultimate act was to desecrate that which was holy in the jewishcommunity's sight.