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As the Jewish Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah, is fast approaching (December 25, 2024 to January 2, 2025), we’re looking forward to playing dreidel (and winning gelt!), lighting the menorah with ...
A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, [1] (/ ˈ d r eɪ d əl / DRAY-dəl; Yiddish: דרײדל, romanized: dreydl, plural: dreydlech; [a] Hebrew: סביבון, romanized: sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in Europe and ...
"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).
"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).
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.
Throughout the eight days of Hanukkah, there are a variety of celebrations with a mix of prayers, games (like dreidel), gifts, food (like latkes) and songs.The main event, however, is the lighting ...
Commercial bakeries began selling sufganiyot days and weeks before Hanukkah began, lengthening the employment period. Their effort was successful, and sufganiyot became the most popular food for Hanukkah in Israel. [a] [3] [6] [2] [7] By the 21st century, more Israeli Jews report eating sufganiyot on Hanukkah than fasting on Yom Kippur. [2] [17]
Night and day, our top (dreidel / s'vivon) turns Gather round the table, we'll give you a treat סֻפְגָּנִיּוֹת נֹאכַל בָּם לָרֹב : Sufganiot, Nochal bam larov! Jelly doughnuts (sufganiot), we'll also eat many. Dreidels (or Sevivon) to play with, and latkes to eat הָאִירוּ, הַדְלִיקוּ : Ha'iru, hadliku,