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Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday known as the "festival of lights."
The holiday commemorates the Maccabees' victory in recapturing Jerusalem's Holy Temple in 165 BCE.
In 2025, Hanukkah will begin on the evening of Sunday, December 14.
Hanukkah, the eight-day holiday celebrated in the Jewish faith, starts in only a few days.
Known as the festival of lights, the celebration is marked by the nightly lighting of candles. The dates of Hanukkah can vary, though they generally fall around the same time as Christmas. In 2024, Christmas and Hanukkah coincided, with some playfully referring to the joint traditions as "Christmukkah."
Also spelled Chanukah, the holiday is one of the most well-known in the Jewish faith by non-Jewish people. However, within the Jewish f

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