Why Do We Eat Latkes and Sufganiyot on Chanukah?
Chanukah is an eight-day festival celebrating the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Syrian general Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The story of the Maccabees’ victory over the Syrians is told in the book of 1 Maccabees. According to tradition, the rededication took place in 165 BCE, though scholars dispute whether the … Read more