Hebrew
Traditions/Customs
The Story
Dreidels!
Food
100
What is Chanukah
100
This is what is used to hold the candles on Chanukah.
What is a Menorah/Chanukiah.
100
The conflict between the Assyrian Greeks and Jews began when some Jews refused to worship these.
Idols
100
This is the name of the classic children's dreidel song.
What is "Dreidel! Dreidel! Dreidel!".
100
This is the Yiddish word for potato pancakes.
What are latkes.
200
This prayer is only sung on the first night of Chanukah.
What is shehecheyanu.
200
This game is commonly played on Chanukah.
What is Dreidel.
200
This is the name of the group of people that saved the Jews.
Who are the Maccabees.
200
This is what you could win if you win the Dreidel game.
What is coins/money/gelt.
200
These are what the chocolate coins given on Chanukah are called.
Gelt.
300
This prayer is the second prayer for each candle lighting.
What is "Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, she-asah nisim la-avoteinu v-imoteinu ba- yamim ha-heim ba-z’man ha-zeh".
300
This is how many prayers we sing on a normal Chanukah night (not Shabbat or night 1).
What is two.
300
This is who the Jews were fighting in the war.
Who are the Greeks/the Seleucid Empire.
300
These are the four letters on the dreidel.
What are nun, gimel, hey, and shin. (נ, ג, ה, ש)
300
This is the type of doughnuts we eat on Chanukah.
What is jelly.
400
This is the name of the tallest (sometimes, the middle) candle that is used to light the eight other candles each night.
What is the shammash?
400
There are these many nights of Chanukah.
What is eight.
400
This is why the Chanukah story does not appear in the Torah.
What is Chanukah happened after the Torah was written.
400
If you land on a shin, you must do this.
What is take coins from your hand and put them in the pot (middle).
400
This is why we eat fried foods on Chanukah.
To celebrate the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days.
500
This is the English translation of the word Chanukah.
What is rededication.
500
Before Christmas became a popular holiday, Jewish people/kids received this instead of presents.
What is money or gelt.
500
This was the year that the Chanukah story occured.
What is 168 BCE/3929.
500
This is what the four letters on the dreidel represent.
“A great miracle happened there.”
500
This (sometimes) Chanukah food is a pastry made with cream-cheese dough that is rolled around a filling and baked.
What is Rugelach.