Hanukkah Hebrew
Hanukkah Facts
Hanukkah blessings and songs
Hanukkah foods
Hanukkah names
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The Hebrew word for "Menorah"

What is a menorah or hanukiah

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Game that was played to fool the Syrians and later the Romans when they came to find Jews who were studying the Torah when that was against the law.


What is the Dreidel Game

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last two words of the Hanukkah blessing over the candles

What is Shel Hanukkah

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Gelt is made out of

What is chocolate?

100

The name of the Jewish leader who revolted against the Greeks

What is Judah Maccabee 

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The Hebrew word for "dreidel"

What is a Sevivon

200

The number of candles we light on the 6th night

What is 7

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In the dreidel song you say dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I made it out of

What is clay

200

Made out of potatoes, flattened and fried in oil

What is latkes?

200

The name Maccabee means 

What is hammer

300

The name of the candle that lights the other candles

What is the shamash

300

The total number of candles needed to celebrate Hanukkah

What is 44

300

The prayer that we say only on the first night of Hanukkah

What is the Shehechiyanu?

300

You can dip your latkes into these two things

What is applesauce and sour cream

300

The name of Judah Maccabee's father

Who is Mattathias Maccabee

400

The letters on the dreidel, and what they stand for

What is נ,ג,ה,ש/פ - A Great Miracle Happened There/Here

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The direction we light the Hanukkah candles

What is Left to right (we place them on the Menorah from right to left, but since we are supposed to light the last candle first, we end up lighting from left to right)

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Complete: Oh Hanukkah, Oh, Hanukkah come light the menorah, come to our party....

What is "We'll all dance the Hora"

400

This reason why we eat fried food on Hanukkah

What is to remind us of the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days

400

Another name for Hanukkah

What is The Festival of Lights?

500

The Hebrew month Hanukah is celebrated on

What is Kislev

500

The origins of the word "Maccabee" (where it comes from)

What are the first letters in every word in the phrase Mi Camohca Ba'Elim Asonai (Who is like you, God?)

500

The Hebrew Name for the song Rock of Ages

What is Maoz Tzur

500

The name of the special fried donuts that Israeli people eat during Hanukkah

What is sufganiyot?

500

In 60 CE., Roman soldiers descended upon Jerusalem, massacring thousands of people and desecrating the city’s holy second temple by erecting an altar to 

What is Zeus