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Dreidel is now a spoof competitive sport in North America. Major League Dreidel (MLD), founded in New York City in 2007, hosts dreidel tournaments during the holiday of Hanukkah. In MLD tournaments the player with the longest time of spin (TOS) is the winner. MLD is played on a Spinagogue, the official spinning stadium of Major League Dreidel.
"I Have a Little Dreidel" [1] (also known as "The Dreidel Song" [1] or "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") is a children's Hanukkah song in the English-speaking world that also exists in a Yiddish version called "Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl", (Yiddish: איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Lit: I am a little dreidel German: Ich bin ein kleiner Dreidel).
Parents often give children chocolate gelt to play dreidel with. In terms of actual gelt (money), parents and grandparents or other relatives may give sums of money as an official Hanukkah gift. According to a survey done in 2006, 74 percent of parents in Israel give their children Chanukah gelt. [5]
The letters on the dreidel are the first letters in a Hebrew phrase that means “A Great Miracle Happened There.” Players spin the dreidel, and the letter on top when it lands corresponds to a ...
Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans, co-author of the “The Mexican Dreidel,” a children's Hanukkah book, talks about Hanukkah's significance and Jewish Latino heritage.
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The dreidel typically has four sides: N (נ ) for nothing; G (ג ) for take all; H (ה ) for take half, and S (ש ) or P (פֹּ ) for put one in. These letters form an acronym, in Hebrew , which recalls the miracle for which the holy day is celebrated; and, in Yiddish , which explains the rules of the game.
"I Have a Little Dreidel" [2] (also known as the "Dreidel Song" [2]) is a very famous song in the English speaking world for Hanukkah, which also has a Yiddish version. The Yiddish version is Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl, (Yiddish: איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl Lit: I am a little dreidel).