What are some lesser known facts about Hanukkah?

Chanukah · Hanukkah, Chanukah 2018: What is Hanukkah? When is Hanukkah? Videos, Recipes, Hanukkah is December 3, 2018 - December 10, 2018. read more

This is probably known to Jewish kids, but not to non Jews. The sevivon/dreidel comes from a story where some students were hiding from the Greeks and were studying Torah. When the Greeks came, they played with spinning tops. read more

Prior to this year’s celebration of Hanukkah, here are 13 lesser-known but important facts about the holiday that have been posted online by the Chabad House of Buffalo: • Eight nights equal miracle lights. According to the Talmud, when the Greeks entered the sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem, they defiled all the vessels of oil that were there. read more

These are 25 Facts About Hanukkah You Might Not Know! 25 Hanukkah celebrates the military victory of the Maccabees, an army of Jewish rebels, when they took back the Temple from the Syrian-Greeks. read more