Hanukkah History
The ninth candle on the menorah.
What is the shamash (“helper”)?
Known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years
Who is Fred Savage?
Jewish people represent this percentage of the world population.
What is 0.2%?
Wrote about adolescent alienation and the loss of innocence through his book's protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
The legal name of popular Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He first gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation before pivoting to a career in music.
Who is Aubrey Drake Graham?
This type of oil was used during the rededication of the Second Temple, and was supposed to keep the menorah’s candles burning for a single day, but the flames continued flickering for eight nights.
What is olive oil?
This American actress is known for her work as Trudy Campbell in Mad Men, as well as for her roles in Community, BoJack Horseman, and Glow.
Who is Alison Brie?
The oldest active synagogue in the world can be found here.
Where is Prague?
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, this American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor is of Hungarian Jewish descent. He was the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
This musician, singer, and songwriter has earned sixteen Grammy awards for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of the Year for Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland.
Who is Paul Simon?
Hanukkah commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where according to legend Jews had risen up against their Greek-Syrian oppressors in this revolt.
What is the Maccabean Revolt?
Born with the last name Silberstein, and the daughter of a famous singer, this American actress is known for her roles in Black-ish, and Girlfriends.
Who is Tracee Ellis Ross?
To celebrate Hanukkah in this country, known there as Januca or Lucenarias – the feast of lights, children play a game called toma todo (winner takes all), which is similar to the version of dreidel that we play, except the top has six sides instead of four.
Where is Mexico?
The author-artist of many beloved books of prose and poetry wrote "“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
Who is Shel Silverstein?
A member of the Rat Pack, this singer converted to Judaism.
Who is Sammy Davis Jr.?
The hebrew word for jam-filled donuts, often enjoyed as a Hanukkah treat.
What is sufganiyot or sufganiot?
Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, where she played the role of Karen Wolek. For this role, she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She later played Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss?
Who is Judith Light?
This city's Trafalgar Square lights up every year with a giant menorah. The lighting has become an annual event drawing thousands of spectators.
Where is London?
His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Who is Joseph Heller?
Her Jewish maternal grandfather is Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born. She is a four-time Grammy Award winner whose chart career includes five US number ones and another ten Top Tens on Billboard's Hot 100, and two Billboard 200 number-one albums: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975).
Who is Olivia Newton-John?
The story of Hanukkah can be found in this book, in which Jesus attends a "Feast of Dedication."
What is the New Testament?
From Russian Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish descent, this American actor is best known for his portrayals of A. J. Quartermaine on General Hospital, Deacon Sharpe on The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless, Mike Barnes in The Karate Kid Part III, and Sam Steven on Studio City.
Who is Sean Kanan?
For Hanukkah in this country, Jews dip wicks in coconut oil. Instead of the latkes common in Ashkenazi culture, Hanukkah here often features barfi, a milk-based treat enhanced with sweet fruits.
Where is India?
In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Who is Norman Mailer?
He was the guitarist, singer and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
Who is Lou Reed?