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	Chanukah
		Chanukah is a Jewish holiday, also known as the festival of lights.
		Chanukah was instituted by Yehudah Maccabe and his brothers in the year 165 BCE., to be celebrated annually with joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.
		The miracle of Chanukah is referred to in the Talmud, but not in the books of the Maccabees.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chanukah.html (896 words)

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		Chanukah is a Jewish holiday, also known as the festival of lights or dedication.
		Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers in the year 165 BCE., to be celebrated annually with joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.
		After having recovered Jerusalem and the Temple, Judah ordered the latter to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one, and new holy vessels to be made.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chanukah.html (958 words)

	Chanukah
		Chanukah (חנכה ḥănukkāh, or חנוכה ḥănūkkāh) is a Jewish holiday, also known as the Festival of lights.
		The festival of Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers to celebrate this event.
		Pesach is a celebration of the barley harvest, Shavuoth of the wheat, Sukkoth of the figs, dates, pomegranates and grapes, and Chanukah of the olives.
	www.xasa.biz /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chanukah.html (1564 words)

	Menorah: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Chanukiah (Chanukah menorah) Chief importance is attached by Jewish law and custom to the kindling...the Chanukiah, a menorah specially designed for use on this holiday.
		The original design for the menorah is in the Torah, and it was used in rituals in the tabernacle (portable sanctuary) and later the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
		The one exception to this concerns the Jewish festival of Chanukah, in which a nine-branched version of the menorah is used; this nine branched menorah is properly called a Chanukiah.
	www.encyclopedian.com /me/Menorah.html (407 words)

	CHANUKAH GELT -- The American Israel Numismatic Association
		Most of us still teach our children that the great 'miracle' of Chanukah was the discovery of a little jar of oil in the desecrated Temple in Jerusalem, which would have burned for only one day but, miraculously, lasted for eight.
		The Hebrew word Chanukah means 'dedication' and the original festival was a commemoration of the Maccabean military victories over the Syrians and a celebration of freedom for many years before the story of the little jar of oil made its appearance in Jewish literature.
		The first Chanukah was meant to replace this lost Sukkot festival and the people came to the re-dedicated temple bearing palm fronds (lulavs) and citrons (etrogs) just as they would have done on Sukkot.
	amerisrael.com /articles_chanukah_gelt_1.html (734 words)

	Chanukah rituals
		The Jewish holiday of Chanukah (Feast of Dedication) has relatively simple religious rituals.
		On the first night of Chanukah one light (candle, lamp, or electric) is lit on the right side of the Menorah, on the following night a second light is placed to the left of the first and is lit first proceeding from left to right, and so on each night.
		Vechol shmonat yemey Chanukah Hanerot halalu kodesh hem, Ve-ein lanu reshut lehishtamesh bahem Ela lirotam bilvad Kedai lehodot u'lehalel leshimcha hagadol Al nissecha veal nifleotecha ve-al yeshuotecha.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chanukah_rituals.html (701 words)

	Chanukah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chanukah, which means "dedication" and is also referred to as "The Festival of Lights", is a Jewish festival which begins on the Hebrew date of the 25th of Kislev and lasts eight days, through the 2nd of Tevet.
		Chanukah commemorates the victory of the Maccabees (led by Judah) over the Hellenistic Syrians in a revolt that took place around 165 BCE (note: Jews use BCE--Before the Common Era and CE--the Common Era instead of BC and AD).
		Therefore, on the first night of Chanukah, two candles are lit (the shamash and the candle for the first night) and on the last night, there are nine lit candles.
	home.att.net /~wallysgrovenewsletter/chanukah.htm (256 words)

	A Woman's Chanukah
		Threatening death to transgressors, the Greeks prohibited many important rituals, yet Jewish women had their babies circumcised, thus stating: we will observe what is holy to us even at the risk of death.
		Chanukah is one holiday when I intrepidly enter the kitchen and, using an old but serviceable blueprint, locate the stove.
		I rallied, however, upon hearing the gathered crowd applaud, as one onlooker gently lifted the loosened plastic wrap and announced, in several languages, that all 50 pastries were intact.
	www.jewish-holiday.com /womanschanukah.html (709 words)

	Hanukkah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chanukah (חנכה ḥănukkāh, orחנוכה ḥănūkkāh) is a Jewish holiday, also known as the Festival of lights.
		Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers in theyear 165 BCE, to be celebrated annually with joy as a memorial of the dedication of the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.
		After having recovered Jerusalem and the Temple, Judah ordered the latter to be cleansed, a new altar tobe built in place of the polluted one, and new holy vessels to be made.
	www.therfcc.org /hanukkah-77201.html (977 words)

	Chanukah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A festival Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers to celebrate this (1 Macc.
		A number of historians believe that the for the eight day celebration was that first Chanukah was in effect a belated of the festival of Sukkot the Feast of Tabernacles (2 Macc.
		However with the rise Christmas as the biggest holiday in the world and the establishment of the modern of Israel this holiday began to increasingly serve as a celebration of Israel's struggle for and more importantly as a December family giving holiday which could be a Jewish for the Christian one.
	www.freeglossary.com /Hannukah (1358 words)

	Chanukah in Baghdad - Chanukah with Aish
		Chanukah commemorates the rededication of Jerusalem's Temple in 165 BCE.
		This Chanukah in Baghdad, in a large and lavish building, the gentle glow of a Chanukah lamp shimmered throughout a cavernous room.
		One of the objects caught in its radiance is a gilded chair that used to serve as the tyrant's throne, and the palace in which it sits used to be the capital building of his reign of terror.
	www.aish.com /chanukahstories/chanukahstoriesdefault/Chanukah_in_Baghdad.asp (1105 words)

	Chanukah
		The festival of lights, Chanukah is without doubt the most aesthetically pleasing of all festivals (not that looks are everything).
		Chanukah is especially a good festival for children.
		As well as receiving Chanukah gelt, which is a monetary present, they get to play with a dreidl, a spinning top with four marked sides, each of which have relevance to a gambling game.
	www.everburninglight.org /Chanukah-7.html (231 words)

	EJP \| News \| Jewish Christmas – Chanukah traditions in Germany
		Religious rituals were the only visible aspects that separated the average Jew from a Christian, in pre-Nazi Germany.
		As a child, she remembered that Chanukah was celebrated with a Chanukah bush [otherwise known as a Christmas tree].
		Chanukah has become a time for card-writing, gift-giving and family gatherings – taking it far beyond simple candle lighting and ritual prayer.
	www.ejpress.org /article/news/4428 (591 words)

	Chanukah: A Little Background Information - Torah.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chanukah, which begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev and lasts eight days, is known mainly for the ritual of lighting the Menorah, an eight branched candelabra.
		Chanukah, unlike the other Rabbinically ordained observances (Purim, the Four Fasts), is not mentioned explicitly at all in Scripture.
		For our Rabbis have taught 'On the 25th of Kislev, the days of Chanukah, which are eight (start), on which eulogies and fasting are not permitted.' - For when the Greeks entered the sanctuary of the Temple, they made all of the oil there ritually impure (and therefore unfit for use in the Temple).
	www.torah.org /learning/yomtov/chanukah/5755/vol1no57.html (779 words)

	The Festival Of Lights
		Pesach is a celebration of the barley harvest, Shavuot of the wheat, Sukkot of the figs, dates, pomegranates and grapes, and Chanukah of the olives.
		Chanukah has relatively simple religious rituals that are performed during the eight nights and days of the holiday.
		The reason for the Chanukah lights is not for the “lighting of the house within”, but rather for the “illumination of the house without”, so that passersby should see it and be reminded of the holiday’s miracle.
	www.qgazette.com /news/2006/1220/features/022.html (2438 words)

	Chanukah - InformationBlast
		The first evening of Chanukah (called Erev Chanukah) starts after the sunset of the 24th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev.
		Josephus thinks that the lights were symbolic of the liberty obtained by the Jews on the day that Chanukah commemorates.
		The song itself has little to do with Chanukah; in each version, he lists celebrities who are Jewish.
	www.informationblast.com /Chanukah.html (1021 words)

	Chanukah through the ages - Features news
		The people’s enthusiasm was high as they began to learn all the prayers, rituals and celebrations that help one establish their own Jewish identity.
		Chanukah is often overemphasised due to the hype of the Christmas season, as the holidays fall at the same time of the year.
		However, though Chanukah may lack the commercialised bells and whistles we see all around us, it helps Jews recall, each year, that an appreciation of the sparkle and lure of mainstream society must not threaten the core survival of the Jewish people.
	www.sofiaecho.com /article/chanukah-through-the-ages/id_19470/catid_29 (1199 words)

	hanukkah information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A festival, Chanukah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and hisbrothers to celebrate this event.
		After having recovered Jerusalem and the Temple Judah ordered the latter to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of thepolluted one, and new holy vessels to be made.
		A number of historians believe that the reason for the eight day celebration was that the first Chanukah was in effect abelated celebration of the festival of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles (2 Macc.
	www.eaa-smt.org /hanukkah.html (1220 words)

	Religious Action Center - Chanukah Guide
		In the middle of winter, we gather together around the Chanukah lights, spin the dreidle, eat latkes and jelly donuts, celebrating the festival of Chanukah.
		Chanukah takes its name of ‘dedication’ from the Maccabees’ rededication of the Temple after their battle against King Antiochus.
		As we increase the lights of Chanukah, adding a candle each night, so too might we, by our actions, bring new light to the world: light to those living in poverty, light for our fragile ecosystems, light for all of our children and the light of religious liberty.
	rac.org /pubs/holidayguides/chanukah (381 words)

	Parents' Press: Chanukah Celebrations
		But as diverse as family rituals might be, parties, games and special holiday foods would probably be common themes.
		Chanukah is a memorial to the Maccabees' fight for religious freedom in 164 BCE and recalls the tale of one day's ration of lamp oil that miraculously burned for eight days.
		The shamash and one candle are kindled the first night, the shamash and two the second night and so on for eight successive nights.
	www.parentspress.com /ffchanukah.html (695 words)

	Chanukah and Olive Oil: Lessons in Devotion - Torah.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the main rituals associated with Chanukah, which begins at sunset on December 5 1996, is the lighting of the Menorah.
		Chanukah is a holiday on which we celebrate our freedom from religious oppression.
		When we look at the olive oil burning bright on Chanukah, we should be reminded that the olive is a symbol of the fortitude our forefathers had.
	torah.org /learning/yomtov/chanukah/5756/vol2no22.html (621 words)

	Chanukah 2000!
		Interestingly, Chanukah is a minor Jewish holiday; but, because it falls in December, many people view Chanukah as the Jewish counterpart to Christmas.
		Chanukah teaches us the value of fighting for your beliefs, and reminds us of the evil of religious and cultural persecution.
		The menorah lamp used for Chanukah, called a Chanukiyah, is an eight-branched candelabra with a raised ninth candle (called "shamash," or "helper"), used to light the others.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/_judaism_retired/53543 (531 words)

	The Argonaut: Top Stories
		Chanukah (or Hanukkah) is the Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the festival of lights, that lasts for eight days starting on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.
		CHANUKAH FESTIVAL — The Chabad Jewish Center in the Del Rey area takes its Chanukah celebration out of the synagogue and into the public arena each year in an attempt to give more public visibility to the holiday and to Jewish culture.
		CHANUKAH PIZZA PARTY — A Chanukah pizza party and community celebration are planned on the fourth night of Chanukah, starting at 6:15 p.m.
	www.argonautnewspaper.com /articles/2005/12/22/news_-_features/top_stories/1wo.txt (656 words)

	Celebrating Chanukah - The Feast Of Lights
		On Chanukah, we eat all manner of delicious fried foods like latkes, symbolizing the one cruse of pure oil found in the Temple that miraculously lasted eight days.
		The inspiring candle-lighting ritual, the rich fried foods, the games with the dreidl and the gift-giving are customs in which everyone can share.
		He ordered his generals to put to death these Jews who were found observing their laws and rituals and to force them to violate Sabbath and bow down to Greek gods.
	www.jewishpress.com /print.do/17067/Celebrating_Chanukah_-_The_Feast_Of_Lights.html (638 words)

	atlanta.jewish.com
		Remember, you'll need a total of forty-four candles to cover the entire eight days of Chanukah, since you add a candle for each night and always use a "helper" candle, or shamash, to light the others.
		Beeswax sheets are available in loads of colors, but we stuck to a few neutral colors to show you a different look from the usual multicolored standbys.
		Adorned with a lovely and creative menorah, this large, contemporary latke platter is sure to be a standout on your Chanukah table.
	www.atljewishtimes.com /modules.php?name=Chanukah_Beeswax (590 words)

	Guru & Associates - Ritual Packages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rituals form the backbone of all organized religions, and the prayers said in them, which are the means of communication between the individual and the higher spiritual force that person believes in.
		All our rituals, with the exception of the Christmas and Chanukah kits, are designed be religion neutral, and to encompass the key ingredients of all prayer type rituals in that they are designed to help in
		While the rituals are designed to be done once, we recommend you read the affirmation meditation daily for at least 30 days, following the bath, to allow you to enhance the positive effects of the work you are doing.
	www.wellnessguru.com /wellness_rituals.htm (221 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poems for Chanukah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Meaning "dedication" in Hebrew, Chanukah celebrates the ancient victory of a band of Jewish rebels against the occupying forces who had outlawed Judaism and profaned the Temple in Jerusalem with Greek idols.
		Once liberated and rededicated, the Temple was restored with a week's worth of celebrations and rituals involving candles, food, and songs--hence the modern holiday of Chanukah, with its eight days of candle-lighting and feasting.
		The ever-present ritual of lighting candles can be deepened with poems such as "Blessed is the Match," written by the poet and Jewish resistance fighter Hannah Senesh, just before her execution during World War II.
	www.poets.org /chanukah (514 words)

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