Hanukkah Foods
What is gelt?
Hanukah is also known as the Festival of This.
What are lights?
There are this many spots for candles on the chanukiyah.
What is 9?
This person was the leader of the Maccabees.
Who was Judah Maccabee?
These letters can be found on each of the sides of the dreidel.
What are nun, gimmel, hey and shin?
This food is made of potatoes and fried in oil
What are latkes?
The miracle of Chanukah is that the oil lasted for this number of days.
What is 8?
The helper candle is called this.
What is the shamash?
This was the name of the King who ordered the Temple to be destroyed.
Who was Antiochus?
When the dreidel lands on this letter, you have to put one in.
What is shin?
This tasty treat is made up of dough friend in oil and is usually stuffed with jelly
What are soofganiyot? OR What are sufganiyot?
On the first night of Hanukkah, this number of blessings are said. On all other nights, that number of blessings are said.
What is 3 and 2?
On a chanukiyah, we light our candles from this direction to that direction.
What is right to left?
Before Judah Maccabee, there was this Maccabee who led the group and had 5 sons.
Who was Mattithias?
Who was Mattityahu?
The song teaches us that dreidels are made out of this material.
What is clay?
Before oil was used to fry latkes, this fat (think Jewish) was used to make all things tasty and fried.
What is schmaltz?
The word Chanukah means this in English.
What is dedication?
If you light your chanukiyah for all 8 nights, you will use this number of candles.
What is 44?
The word maccabee can be translated as this tool that is often used to help build things.
What is hammer?
This phrase is what the letters on the dreidel represent.
What is "a great miracle happened there"?
The original latke was not made out of potatoes but of this ingredient often found in lasagna.
What is ricotta cheese?
Hanukah begins in this Hebrew month.
What is Kislev?
If you light Hanukkah candles every year for the first 18 years of your life, you will have used this many Hanukkah candles.
What is 792?
The word maccabee is also said to be an acronym for this prayer that we sing during services, which celebrates the crossing of the red sea.
What is Mi Chamocha?
In Israel, there is one different letter on the dreidel. Name this letter and what the full phrase means.
What is pey? AND What is "a great miracle happened here"?