Don't Forget to Bring These Fun Hanukkah Facts to Your Holiday Dinner Table
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1) What is Hanukkah?
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2) About the holiday's name...
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3) The Jewish rebels won the revolt, but then they faced another challenge.
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4) And that's why Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration of the "miracle of the oil."
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5) Hanukkah can align with other holidays.
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6) But unlike Christmas, there's traditionally no gift-giving on Hanukkah.
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7) Children win gelt by spinning dreidels.
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8) Traditional Hanukkah foods involve latkes.
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9) There are homemade donuts called sufganiyot.
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10) Chanukah and Hanukkah are technically both correct spellings.
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11) The Torah doesn't mention Hanukkah at all.
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12) An astronaut once celebrated Hanukkah in space.
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13) The National Menorah is lit every year in Washington D.C.
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