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Hanukkah ['hɑ:nəkə]

n. (=Chanukah)光明节(犹太纪念节日之一)

hanukkah

[ noun ]
(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC
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Hanukka \Ha"nuk*ka\, or Hanukkah \Ha"nuk*kah\, n. [Heb.
khanukk[=a]h.]
The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas
Maccab[ae]us, his brothers, and the whole congregation of
Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the
new altar set up at the purification of the temple of
Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by
Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (--1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59).
The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for
eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev,
corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere,
chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews. [Also spelled
{Chanuka}.]

Syn: Chanukah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast
of the Dedication.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Here is a message from President Reagan on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which begins Sunday, as released by the White House Friday: I am pleased to send holiday greetings to the Jewish community during this season of Hanukkah 5749.
Here is a message from President Reagan on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which begins Sunday, as released by the White House Friday: I am pleased to send holiday greetings to the Jewish community during this season of Hanukkah 5749.
Also, without the precedent of Hanukkah, scholars point out that there presumably could be no Christmas.
Their rise hinged on the heritage of Hanukkah, whose eight-day observance begins at sundown Friday.
"We hope the light of Hanukkah penetrates the darkness of Soviet Russia," said Glenn Richter, an organizer of the demonstration by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
To Jews, who begin celebrating the eight days of Hanukkah at sundown Friday, Bush recalled that the holiday commemorates a great victory won by the Jewish Maccabees in their struggle to worship freely in their own way.
Refused for now to let a Jewish organization display a menorah, symbolizing the Hanukkah holiday, on the steps of a Pittsburgh government building next month.
By coincidence, it also was the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish "festival of lights." Twenty Gyuto monks, the Gyuto Tantric Choir, sat in two lines on the floor of a stage and sang nine chants.
John Hill, a believer in Fort Worth, Texas, has started a computer bulletin board and puts out a booklet that tells how Noahides can celebrate Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah.
The two other cases in which decisions are pending include an important church-state dispute from Pittsburgh focusing on holiday displays of a Christmas Nativity scene and a Hanukkah menorah at government buildings.
Boosting business, she said, was the fact that Hanukkah began last night.
A Jewish group will be allowed to erect a menorah on the steps of the City-County Building in Pittsburgh for the start of Hanukkah.
Silver, who once played the son of a garment manufacturer on the CBS series "Wiseguy," asked the writers to kill his character off so he could be home with his family for Hanukkah, the magazine said.
Schneerson also handed out dimes to hundreds of youngsters at the movement's world headquarters in Brooklyn in keeping with the tradition of giving coins, called Hanukkah gelt.
At sundown Dec. 11, Jews will light the first of eight candles for Hanukkah.
But the court unanimously permitted a Hanukkah menorah on the front steps of the City-County Building in Pittsburgh because that display also included a Christmas tree and a sign saluting liberty, which the court said produced an overall secular purpose.
Loeb said the occurrence of Hanukkah at the beginning of December this year "shifted some shopping to the early part of the month," but that sales of Christmas gifts also were proceeding well.
Police did not interfere today as the marchers went to the Wailing Wall at the foot of the mount and lit a candle to mark Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, Israel radio reported.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Bush described his grandson's mishap as he explained the absence of his wife, Barbara, at a ceremony commemorating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

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