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Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday whose dates change annually because it follows the Hebrew lunar calendar.

The holiday commemorates the miraculous victory of the Maccabees and a single day's worth of oil burning for eight days.

Traditions include lighting a candle on a menorah each night, eating oily foods, and playing with a dreidel.

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that falls in December every year, but the dates change on a year-to-year basis. This is because Hanukkah's dates are based on the Jewish calendar, not the Gregorian calendar that we use to mark Christmas.

In 2024, the beginning of Hanukkah fell on Christmas Day. This year, the start of Hanukkah will come earlier, on the second Sunday of December, and will be over before Christmas comes

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