Hanukkah
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival that starts tonight, commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem in the second century BC. The festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum called a menorah with one candle used to light the others, one per night for eight nights. Other traditional activities include spinning a dreidel, a kind of 4-sided gambling top. Above, a Hanukkah celebrant. What a big dreidel you have!
And here we have the makings of another menorah. Eight candles, plus one more to light them.
Happy Hanukkah!
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