hanukkah

• hebrew word for 'dedication'
• festival that remembers the time when the Temple in Jerusalem was re-dedicated to G-d after it has been desecrated by the greek king
• Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led the jewish resistance against greek king and defeated him
• well-known for the lighting of a nine-branched menorah (candlestick) called a hanukkiah, lit to mark eight days of festival
• food cooked in oil are traditionally eaten at the time as the oil lamps in the Temple were also relit as its re-dedication