News: Happy Hanukkah to Our Friends
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04/12/2010 - 01:46

To Our Friends



Hanukah in Israel is a very special date.
We have eight days to stop work and study..!
We celebrate on the 25th of Kislev
So why are we celebrating Hanukah?? The reason is hundreds of years ago, we defeated the Greeks in a big, and hard battle.
It was a miracle! They were thousands against a small number of Macabees.
Maayan 6th grade
Hanukah is a Jewish holiday.
The Jews celebrate the holiday 8 days because jug of oil was enough for 8 days and not for one day as everyone thought.
In Israel during the Hanukah holiday there are many activities.They include beautiful song festivals, shows for adults and shows for children.
I go on Hanukah to the children’s festival and shows.
I celebrate the holiday with my big family and we light all day candles in the Hanukah Lamp.
Ravid C. 6th grade
Hanukah is a Jewish holiday. On Hanukah we kindle a Hanukah lamp, and eat potato pancakes and doughnuts because of the oil jug, when the Greeks destroyed the Temple ,they left only the candelabrum . Everyone wanted to kindle the candelabrum but there was no oil, then they found a small jug with oil. The oil in the jug lasted for 8 days. We celebrate Hanukah 8 days to remember the miracle of Hanukah.
Maya M.
In Israel, the people celebrate Hanukah every year on 25 of the Jewish month of Kislev.
On Hanukah, we celebrate the inauguration of the second temple.
About 2000 years ago, the Jews defeated the Greeks after they destroyed the first temple.
Then, when the Jews went to the temple they found a small jug of oil to light the candelabrum.
They said that this jug couldn’t light the candelabrum for a day, but it was sufficient for eight days, it was a miracle.
This is why we celebrate Hanukah.
On Hanukah, my family lights a Hanukah lamp, eats donuts and potato pancakes and we play with tops.
We usually celebrate with my grandfathers and grandmothers.
Bar O. 6th grade Ein Ganim
We celebrate Hanukah because of the miracle of the oil jar:
About 2500 years ago the Greeks came to Israel and wanted to capture Jerusalem and destroy the holy temple.
When they came in they broke all of the oil jars. The Jews needed the oil to light the candle lamp that lights the temple.
Judah the maWe celebrate Hanuka for the miracle of the oil jar:
about 2500 years ago the Greeks came the Israel and wanted to capture Jerusalem and destroy the temple house.
They came in the broke all of the oil jars. The Jews needed the oil to light the candle lamp that lights the temple.
Judah the Maccabee was the leader of the Jews, Judah and his army came to the temple and found the candle lamp but there was no oil to light it!
Judah looked around and didn't find any oil jar,
Finally, one of Judean troops found a little jar of oil, but it was so small and the oil was not enough to last for one day!
But Judah tried to light the candle lamp and the oil was enough for eight days! That was a miracle!
Because of that we celebrate Hanukah for eight days
Judah the Macabee was the leader of the Jews, Judah and his army came to the temple the found the candle lamp but there was no oil to light it!
Judah looked around and didn't find any oil jar,
Finally, one of Judean troops found a little jar of oil, but it was so small and the oil was not enough oil for one day!
But Judah tried to light the candle lamp and the oil was enough for eight days! That was a miracle!
This is why we celebrate Hanukah for eight days
by Gal 6th grade Ein Ganim School
Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday, we celebrate Hanukkah in the month of Kislev, we usually celebrate Hanukkah in December. On Hanukah we light candles to specify the miracle of the oil tin. Ee eat donuts to remember the oil (one oil pot had eight days).
I like Hanukkah a lot because it is a fun holiday and there area lot of shows for kids on Hanukkah, like the yearly Children Songs Festival.
Guy 6th grade
Hanukah is a Jewish holiday that we celebrate each year.
On Hanukkah we usually light candles every night for eight days.
On Hanukah it is customary to eat donuts and potato pancakes.
Liraz 6th grade
On Hanukah we eat jelly doughnuts and potato pancake and light candles.
I like to eat jelly doughnuts and potato pancakes, they are very delicious.
I like to light candles and see the candle’s light, this is very beautiful.
We light candles for eight days.
I like to listen to Hanukah's songs, they are very beautiful.
Ronit 6th grade
Chanukah is a Jewish holiday.
Chanukah is celebrated on the 25th of the Jewish month Kislev.
Chanukah is celebrated because many years ago the Greeks made hard life for the Jews. Antiochus, the king of Greece, decided the Jews will be like Greeks. They lived like the Greeks because they had no choice.
Part of the Jews agreed, but other part of the Jews didn’t agree. Some of them established the “Hashmonaim” organization. They fought with the Greeks for their freedom. They were a little organization, and the Greeks had a lot of fighters, but they weren’t afraid. They fought and won. The Jews received back their freedom.
This is the reason we celebrate Chanukah, eating doughnuts, lighting eight Chanukah candles and playing with tops labeled “a great miracle happened here”.
Raz 6th grade
Hanukkah is an important holiday, because Hanukkah remembers the temple, the Maccabees who fought in the war and the miracle that was there- a little oil jar which was sufficient to light the candelabrum for 8 days.

On Hanukkah we are lighting Hanukkah lamps to remember the candelabrum in the temple, and we are eating food with a lot of oil, like jelly doughnuts and potato pancakes, to remember the oil jar and the miracle.
Nofar 6th grade
Chanukah is a Jewish holiday.
It is a really an old holiday but people celebrate it every year.
On Chanukah we eat donuts and play with tops.
We also light candles every day for 8 days.
When Chanukah comes a lot of Jewish kids are very happy and exited because of the coming holiday.
I celebrate Chanukah with my family, my family and I love Chanukah, (especially the donut part) it is a great holiday.
Now when Chanukah is so close, a lot of people are preparing for this holiday.
So if you want to celebrate Chanukah, even if you are not Jewish you can always celebrate!!!
Johnathan 6th grade
Hanukkah is a holiday that exists to remember that when the Maccabees wanted to light the Menorah, which is a seven-candled candelabra, in order to worship god because of their victory against the Greeks, they didn't have oil, and they found a small jug of oil, that in a miracle had enough oil for Eight days!
We celebrate Hanukkah by lighting a Menorah and spinning tops, that symbolize the Jewish's disguise when they learned the bible.
In those times, it wasn't allowed to learn the bible, so every time the Greeks passed over the temple, they hid the books and took out the tops to play with as long as the greeks were there.
We also eat doughnuts and Latkes ( Potato Pancakes ), to remember the oil, since these are fried with oil.

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Hanukkah it is when we remember the miracle of oil burning 8 days,
and the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks.
On Chanukah we eat donuts and potato pancakes
fried in oil to remember the miracle of the oil jug.
We light the menorah candles 8 days.
My family and I go to shows, travel and meet relatives.
Bar S.
I celebrate Hanukkah with my family, with my uncles my cousins and my friends.We light candles, eat donuts, sing songs and tell stories.
On Hanukkah I love going to the children’s song festival .I think that Hanukkah is a holiday special.The story of the holiday is just amazing!!!!
Gaya G. 6th grade



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