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This Jewish holiday, also known as the festival of lights, celebrates the Maccabean revolt against the Syrian-Greek army. The Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, conquered the Syrian-Greeks who ...
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, [a] is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited.
Hanukkah is coming! The "Festival of Lights" dates back to 164 BCE after the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated by the Maccabees. They were a group of Jews leading a rebellion against Antiochus ...
Although Hanukkah is considered a minor Jewish holiday, Its proximity to Christmas gives it weight. The “Festival of Lights” helped link American Jews to their Christian neighbors while still ...
The proximity of the beginning of the Hanukkah festival on the 25th of Kislev (end of November/December) to Christmas led to the so-called "December Dilemma" for Jewish families living in societies that were largely Christian. [5] The history of an informal merger between Hanukkah and Christmas dates back to 19th century Germany and Austria.
wundervisuals/Getty Images. 4. Playing Dreidel. A dreidel is a tiny spinning top, inscribed with Hebrew letters on its four sides, and it’s used to play the popular Hanukkah game by the same name.
Until the 1920s, sufganiyot and latkes were of comparable popularity among Jews in Mandatory Palestine during the Hanukkah holiday. The Histadrut , Israel's national labor union formed in 1920, pushed to replace the homemade latke with the sufganiyah as Israel's quintessential Hanukkah food in order to provide more work for its members.
The Jewish people continued to celebrate the temple rededication annually, but it would take another 250 years before Hanukkah came to be known as the Festival of Lights, a term coined by the ...