Hanukkah Harry's second appearance on SNL was on Season 15: Episode 17, with guest host Corbin Bernsen, first broadcast on April 14, 1990, in a sketch titled " The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Easter.

The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights — one on the first night, two on the second, and so on — using a special candle holder called a Chanukkiyah, or a Hanukkah menorah.

A narration of Bone Button Borscht by Barbara Budd traditionally airs across Canada on CBC Radio One's As It Happens on the first day of Hanukkah.

(°&# 32 ; however, if Vayeshev occurs on the first Sabbath Hanukkah, which happens occasionally, the Haftarah is Zechariah 2: 14 – 4: 7.

(°&# 32 ; however, if Miketz occurs on the first Sabbath Hanukkah, which is usually the case, the Haftarah is Zechariah 2: 14 – 4: 7.

His attendance coincided with the first night of Hanukkah.

It is a Jewish prayer recited on all seven days of Sukkot, on Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah ), on Shavuot, on the first two days of Pesach ( only the first day in Israel ), and on the eight days of Hanukkah.

In fact, in the Christmas episode of All Grown Up !, Dil and Tommy wrote a Hanukkah song and performed it after Susie sang the first verse of The First Noel.

* Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah ( 2004 limited issue, reissued 2006 with 4 additional tracks ) by The Klezmatics ( guest appearance by Susan )

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

This is a reference to the disagreement between two rabbinical schools of thought — the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai — on the proper order in which to light the Hanukkah flames.

The Gemara, in tractate Shabbat 21, focuses on Shabbat candles and moves to Hanukkah candles and says that after the forces of Antiochus IV had been driven from the Temple, the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned.

Hanukkah (, " dedication ") also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev ( Hebrew calendar ).

One candle is lit on each day of the week-long celebration, in a similar manner as the Hanukiah ( which was modeled after the menora ) during Hanukkah.

These lyrics were rediscovered by Nora Guthrie and were set to music by the Jewish Klezmer group The Klezmatics with the release of Happy Joyous Hanukkah on JMG Records in 2007.

The commandment to read the Megillah ( Book of Esther ) on Purim and to light the Menorah on Hanukkah are Rabbinic innovations.

At the start of the Christmas / Hanukkah season, many residents and business owners place large, illuminated stars, some as big as or more in diameter, on the " downhill " sides of homes and offices throughout Brisbane.

Like Hanukkah, Purim has more of a national than a religious character, and its status as a holiday is on a lesser level than those days ordained holy by the Torah.

In the winter of 1975, on the seventh night of Hanukkah, a Gush Emunim group of 23 families and six singles erected a prefabricated concrete structure and two wooden huts at the site now known as " Founder's Circle " in Mishor Adumim.

Polish Jews fried pączki (, pontshkes ) in oil, and ate them on Hanukkah, following the tradition of eating food cooked in oil on Hanukkah.

Building on these two SNL appearances, Hanukkah Harry has been referenced as a personification of Hanukkah to correspond to Santa Claus in various other media, including on National Public Radio, and on the pages of The New York Times in which Jonathan Safran Foer satirically described him as " a real person who drops in on Jewish homes each of the eights nights of Hanukkah to deliver gifts that are in no way dependent on children's good behavior ".

The holiday was called Hanukkah ( meaning " dedication ") because it marks the re-dedication of the Temple after its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.

There is a custom to give children money ( Hanukkah gelt ) to commemorate the learning of Torah in guise of Jews gathering in what was perceived as gambling at that time since Torah was forbidden.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

According to Davis, he wrote the story when he was unable to find a story that he liked for a Hanukkah reading.

Following the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid empire, the Second Temple was rededicated and became the religious pillar of the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom, as well as culturally associated with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

He is not the king who oppressed Judea and was resisted by the Maccabees in the Jewish story of Hanukkah ; rather, that was his son, Antiochus IV.

" The celebratory festival of Hanukkah is instituted: " When the fire had been kindled anew upon the altar and the lamps of the candlestick lit, the dedication of the altar was celebrated for eight days amid sacrifices and songs.

The reconsecration of the Temple became a permanent Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, which continued even after the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE.

Handel's Judas Maccabaeus was often performed in the Land of Israel, with the motif of " conqu ' ring hero " becoming a Hanukkah song.

Mr. Hooper was Jewish, according to Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, when Bob told him to have a Happy Hanukkah when he was dropping off presents to his friends.

However, Davey's progress in reforming is halted when one morning Whitey recalls the events of Hanukkah twenty years ago: En route to one of Davey's basketball games, his parents ' car was struck by an oncoming truck after it skidded on black ice.

When a Talmudically specified haftarah was to be read on a certain Sabbath ( e. g., on Sabbath of Hanukkah ), some communities did not read the bridegroom's haftarah, preferring to keep to the standard haftarah of the week.

In 1992, the crew of the animated series Rugrats was approached by Nickelodeon, which pitched the idea of a Rugrats Hanukkah special.

Eleazar's heroism was commemorated in a Hanukkah coin issued by the Bank of Israel in 1961.

The only references to how it was celebrated, other than the family displaying both a Christmas tree and a Hanukkah menorah, was that the Cohens spent Christmas Day itself rather than going out for Chinese food and a movie as many American Jews have taken up in recent years, watching movies like It's a Wonderful Life and Fiddler on the Roof at home while eating Chinese takeout.

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* The Nanny (" The Wedding Episode ", " The Fran in the Mirror ", " The Hanukkah Episode ")-1999