{"id":1837,"date":"2026-12-04T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-12-04T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:35:26","slug":"hanukkah-begins-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah Begins this Evening!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day \u201cFestival of Lights\u201d<\/strong> that commemorates the success of the Maccabees when they fought the Seleucids 2100 years ago. When the Maccabees knew they were victorious, they realized they had enough oil to light the menorah for only one night. However, the oil lasted for eight nights. Jews eat latkes, play games with dreidels, and light candles on the menorah every night. Tonight the shamash (the middle candle) and one more candle will be lit. Hanukkah will end the night of December 12, 2026. Children could read <em>Alexandra&#8217;s Scroll: The Story of the First Hanukkah<\/em>, written by Miriam Chaikin. Children could also visit a great website, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>loaded with activities<\/strong><\/span>, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activityvillage.co.uk\/hanukkah_for_kids.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.activityvillage.co.uk\/hanukkah_for_kids.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day \u201cFestival of Lights\u201d that commemorates the success of the Maccabees when they fought the Seleucids 2100 years ago. When the Maccabees knew they were victorious, they realized they had enough oil to light the menorah for only one night. However, the oil lasted for eight nights. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1837' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4654,4656,4657,4655],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-hanukkah","tag-maccabees","tag-seleucids","tag-festival-of-lights","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30443,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/30443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}