Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish winter festival known as the Festival of Lights. It commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE after the Maccabees defeated the Seleucid Empire. According to the story, when the Maccabees reclaimed the temple, they found only enough consecrated oil to light the temple's menorah for one day, but the oil miraculously lasted for eight days, allowing more oil to be prepared under ritual conditions. Today, Hanukkah is celebrated by lighting the candles of the menorah each night, eating oil-based foods like latkes and sufganiyot, playing games with a dreidel, and

1. Hanukkah
by Indus Bowker Samuels

2. What is Hanukkah?

3. Festival of Lights

4. Feast of Dedication

5. Why do Jews Celebrate Hanukkah?

6. The Story of Hanukkah
About 2200 years ago, a
Greek king had taken over
the temple in Jerusalemand
would not let the Jews
practice their religion

7. The Story of Hanukkah
The Maccabees fought for the
Jews’freedom and took the temple
back

8. The Story of Hanukkah
They re-dedicated the temple and
lit the lamp but there was only
enough oil to burn for onenight

9. The Story of Hanukkah
The miracle of Hanukkah isthat
the oil lasted for 8nights

10. How is Hanukkah celebrated?

11. The Menorah
One candle for each of the 8 nights and one to light them all

12. Eating Special Food
with lots of oil!

13. Dreidel
a spinning top used to play agame

14. Giving Gifts

15. When is Hanukkah celebrated?

16. Hanukkah is celebrated
in the winter.
It lasts for 8 nights.
In 2018 it started on
2nd December

17. References
Images:
Title Slide:http://sulzbachercenter.org/fundraisers/give-a-good-night#hanukkah
Festival of Lights: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17491613
Feast of Dedication: http://www.luciapaulblog.com/2011/12/holidays-happy-hanukkah.html
Story of Hanukkah, temple:http://www.keyway.ca/htm2012/20120812.htm
Story of Hanukkah, Maccabees: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TU-DnvbaL.jpg
Story of Hanukkah, thelamp: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.561119
Story of Hanukkah, the miracle: http://cerf-institute.org/2013/11/27/hanukkah-the-jewish-festival-of-lights/
The Menorah: photo of Indy lighting a menorah
Eating Special Food 1:http://www.panperfocaccia.eu/forum/bomboloni-graffe-krapfen-t13926-20.html
Eating Special Food 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latke%E2%80%93Hamantash_Debate
Dreidel: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/21999-the-hanukkah-story-aka-miracle
Giving Gifts: http://www.mishegasofmotherhood.com/2012/12/02/hanukkah-gift-guide-its-a-miracle/hanukkah-gifts/
When is Hanukkah: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/21999-the-hanukkah-story-aka-miracle