Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival, also known as the Festival of Lights or its traditional name Chanukah. It sees Jews around the world light one candle on a nine-branched menorah – or ‘hanukiah candelabrum’ – each day. “Years and years ago, there were these people called the Maccabees!” Yes, Ross from Friends does try to tell the story correctly. The Jewish festival marks the recovery of Jerusalem and the later rededication of the Second Temple at the start of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire during the 2nd century BCE. The holiday begins on the 25th day of...
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