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Hanukkah in television, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (which commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks), is represented and referenced to in a number of television series of various genres such as comedy, sitcom, drama, documentary, animated, children's, competitive, talk and reality television, among others. Through a number ...
From Friends to The Goldbergs, there are plenty of Hanukkah-themed TV episodes to watch this season, whether you’re Jewish or not. So put on your yarmulke, it’s time for Hanukkah! The O.C., on ...
[9] [10] [11] Common elements of this secular Christmas festival and its influence on the Hanukkah festival among Jews were a Hanukkah tree or Hanukkah bush as a counterpart to the Christmas tree, the Hanukkah Man, who, as a counterpart to Santa Claus, brought the presents for the children, or the Hanukkah calendar with eight flaps. [12]
Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem after a small Jewish army called the Maccabees reclaimed it from the Greek leader Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC.
The series depicted the lives of five Orthodox Jewish single men and women in their 30s who reside in Jerusalem. [1] The title is a reference to the crocheted skullcaps worn by men of that segment of Israeli society. [2] Srugim, which dealt with controversial issues in the Orthodox Jewish society in Israel, caused a public uproar within that ...
Hanukkah’s purifying of the temple from idolatrous worship would, for most Jews, preclude any embrace of Christian claims about a trinity, a divine God-Man, and the abrogation in such a person ...
Rosh Chodesh L'Banot [1] [2] (Hebrew: ראש חודש לבנות), also known as Chag HaBanot [2] (חג הבנות, 'Festival of the Daughters', [3] sometimes translated as Girls' Day), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, [clarification needed] [2] is a holiday celebrated by some Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah.
The Hanukkah Story. According to Jewish tradition, after the Jews won back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...