What's the Jewish stance on the Apocrypha?
It is utterly irrelevant to us. We don't recognize it, use it, anything. For that matter, there really isn't such a thing as Jewish Apocrypha. Most of the Apocrypha was written well after the Jewish Canon was set; there wasn't as much of a discussion as there was in the Christian World.
But it has the Hannukah story in it, so why do you celebrate it if you don't recgonize the book that contains its story?
there is a humongous difference between a prophetic book (that even books like Judges and and Kings are considered to be) and a book that is considered to be a historical book.
