However, the Second Book of the Maccabees (c. 124 BCE), written in Egypt, notes that Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days ...

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Josh Peck and Robby Hoffman have vastly different ideas about a few core aspects of celebrating Hanukkah. “You taught me ...

The tradition is a reminder of what Jewish practice calls the “miracle of the oil” — a story from later rabbinic tradition commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the ...

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One answer, offered by, among others, the late Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, is that one of Hanukkah’s eight days commemorates the ...

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With the Hanukah miracle revolving around oil, it is customary to celebrate the holiday by eating foods fried in oil.