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Menorah or hanukkiyah?
Menorah, donuts, chockolate coins and wooden dreidels. (Credit: Karaidel/http://www.istockphoto.com) A menorah, the Hebrew word for lam...
George Washington’s escape from New York
Continental troops retreating under cover of darkness. Less than two months after the July 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independ...
What does Hanukkah celebrate?
Jehudah Maccabaeus leading his Jewish army, the Maccabees) into battle. (Credit: Ann Ronan Pictures/Getty Images) Hanukkah celebrates t...
The March of the Ten Thousand
The Ten Thousands in battle against the Persians. The Ten Thousand were a band of Greek mercenaries hired by the Persian prince Cyrus ...
The flight of the Nez Perce
Chief Joseph (Credit: GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) In 1877, the United States government seized the ancestral lands of the Nez Perce In...
There is a height limit for menorahs.
Despite both being at the clearly defined height limit of 32-feet-tall, two menorahs in New York are currently at odds claiming to have t...
The Dunkirk evacuation
World War II’s “Miracle of Dunkirk” began on May 27, 1940, when the first of some 338,000 British, French and Belgian troops were eva...
Dreidel, dreidel, what?
Second grade students play with dreidels and chocolate gold coins. (Credit: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images) Dating back to before ...
The traditional use of oil even applies to the holiday’s foods.
Award-winning latke maker Agnes Dwenger frying latkes. (Credit: The Denver Post/Getty Images ) The miracle of the oil lasting eight ...
How to light the Menorah.
(Credit: tovfla/http://www.istockphoto.com) There are very specific rules about lighting a menorah; luckily most of them rely on sim...
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The Dunkirk evacuation
The flight of the Nez Perce
The March of the Ten Thousand
The traditional use of oil even applies to the holiday’s foods.
What does Hanukkah celebrate?
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Why is Hanukkah celebrated on different dates?
