8 Hanukkah Traditions and Their Origins
From lighting a menorah, to giving out gelt, to eating cheese—find out how these Hanukkah traditions began.
Each year, Jews around the world celebrate an eight-day winter holiday known as Hanukkah (also spelled “Chanukah” and several other ways) on the 25th day of the month of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar, typically falling in November or December on the Gregorian calendar.