| Traditional Foods | The menorah | Dreidel | Blessings, songs, miscellaneous |
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What is Sufganiyot
A jelly-filled donut
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What is a hanukkiah
The word for a menorah with 8 branches
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What is clay
What I first made my little dreidel out of
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What is the candle blessing
A Chanukah blessing is the same as this shabbat blessing except for one word
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What is Sephardic
The Jewish ethnic group that eats donuts for Chanukah
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What is the shamash
The helper candle
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What is gimmel
The letter that means you can take all the gelt
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What is the shehechayanu
The blessing we say on the first of something, like the first night of Chanukah
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What is a potato
The underground veggie that makes latkes
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What is 8 days of the miracle
This is what the 8 candles represent
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What is Yiddish
The language that gave us the word gelt
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What is Rock of Ages
Maoz tsur
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What are sour cream and applesauce
These are the traditional toppings for latkes
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Who is Hillel
The sage who argued we should light only one candle on the first night and 8 on the eighth night
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What is nes gadol haya sham
The Hebrew words for which the dreidel letters stand
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Who is King Antiochus
The king against whom the Maccabees fought
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To reference the miracle of the oil lasting
The reason we cook foods in oil on Chanukah
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Who is Shammai
The sage who argued that we should light eight candles on the first night and one candle on the 8th night
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A great miracle happened there
The translation of the what the dreidel letters stand for
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What is dedication
The meaning of the word Chanukah
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