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I hold all of your candles each night of Hanukah.
What is a menorah?
Coins that we use when we play dreidel.
What is gelt?
Special potato food we eat on Hanukkah.
What is "latkes?"
The town the Jewish rebellion started in
What is Modin?
A mitzvah that the evil Greek king forbid the Jews to observe.
What is studying Torah, observing the mitzvot, such as Shabbat and circumcision?
Spin me around to win some gelt.
What is a dreidel?
The best Hebrew letter to land on when playing a game of dreidel.
What is Gimel?
The food inside gelt.
What is chocolate?
He led the Maccabees to victory against the Greek army
Who is Judah Maccabee?
Number of days the menorah stayed lit with only one jar of oil
What is 8 days?
The Maccabees needed more of me to keep the menorah lit.
What is a container of oil?
The four Hebrew letters that are on an American dreidel.
What are, "nun, gimmel, hey, shin?"
We cook special Hanukkah foods in this.
What is oil?
The name of the cruel king who tried to make Jewish people worship Greek gods?
Who is Antiochus?
The two miracles that happened in the Hanukkah story.
What is a great military victory, and what is the oil in the menorah lasting for 8 days?
My Job is to help light the other candles.
What is the shamesh?
English meaning of the Hebrew phrase "nes gado haya sham"
What is "a great miracle happened there?"
Jelly-filled sweet treat that we eat on Hanukkah.
What is sufganiyot?
The meaning of the word "maccabee.
What is hammer?
The meaning of the word Chanukah.
What is re-dedication?
I am a nine branched menorah, but there is another more precise name for me.
What is a Chanukiah?
Hebrew letter on an Israeli dreidel that is different than on an American dreidel.
What is Poh?
My favorite latke topping
What is apple sauce, sour cream, ketchup...?
The Jewish leader who refused to bow down to a Greek idol, and began the Jewish rebellion
Who was Mattathias?
The Hebrew month that Hanukkah is in.
What is Kislev?