Traditional Hanukkah recipes include foods fried in oil, to commemorate the original miracle of the oil. Dairy products are also popular during Hanukkah. Some of the most popular foods include latkes fried potato pancakes , applesauce, sufganiyot deep-fried or jelly doughnuts , and rugelach pastries.
See more Hanukkah recipes! Many Hanukkah meals are eaten communally to bring together friends and family, especially if they need to reconcile. Colorful dreidels. Traditionally, money was given to charity, with more given each day as the candles were lit. This originated with the need for even the poor to have money for the candles, so they could go door-to-door without any shame. It is also customary on Hanukkah to give money called Hanukkah gelt to children, and to play games with the dreidel —a four-sided spinning top.
Ours is a mixed faith family, so we celebrate everything. The joke with our kids and their friends was that every year, the menorah burned down the Christmas tree! Our menorah is an antique, bought by my husband's Grandma Molly in She gave it to us when we were married, and we cherish it. I have her recipe and my mother-in-law's for latkes - potato pancakes, and we enjoy them - usually on the 8th night when all the candles are lit.
Our friends are of all faiths, and when the kids were small, we'd have a Hanukkah party on the last night and invite everyone to share the traditions.
Everyone looked forward to it. I learned to play the Hanukkah Hymn, otherwise known as "Rock of Ages" not the Christian hymn of that name on my harp a few years ago, and my family loves to sing the holiday songs. One of my Jewish nursing students said to me today "Miracles still happen, so shine brightly and pass your Light to the world!
But taking Judaism mainstream may be the main reason. I think it has helped people celebrate. A major tenet is celebrating how light can lead through dark periods of time, which is recognized with the lighting of a menorah a candelabrum that offers more candles as the eight-day Hanukkah celebration continues often placed in a window.
Another key point is the celebration of religious freedom and the importance to fight for it by remembering that the festival itself commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by foreign forces. The Festival of Lights, an eight-day celebration, marks the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.
It is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays -- perhaps due to its proximity to Christmas on the Gregorian calendar -- and is celebrated by lighting a nine-branch candelabrum commonly called a menorah. Technically, the candelabrum is called a hanukkiah to distinguish itself from the seven-branch menorah used in the Temple. The story of Hanukkah is one of revolution and miracles: Greek influence over the Jews in the Land of Israel was getting out of hand.
Hellenism was spreading, an affront to Jewish culture and religious practice. When the Greek ruler of the time, Antiochus, forbade Jewish religious practice, a small group of Jews, the Maccabees , revolted. The Maccabees were successful and, as a first order of business, restored the desecrated Holy Temple. The menorah in the Temple needed to be lit.
Rosh Hashanah: 2 days. Yom Kippur: 1 day. Sukkot: 7 days; first is holy. Shemini Atzeret: 1 day. Hanukkah: 8 days. Outside Israel: Purim: 1 day. Passover: 8 days; first 2 and last 2 are holy.
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