{"id":6072,"date":"2025-12-15T13:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:15:50","slug":"hanukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hanukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hanukkah Festival Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukkah Festival, which will begin on 14 December, 2025 and last until 22 December, 2025. Recently, an attack targeting the Jewish Community took place in Sydney, Austraila, while they were celebrating the Hanukkah Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Hanukkah (Chanukah)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hanukkah, also known as Chanukah, is an <\/span><b>eight-day Jewish festival<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> celebrated in winter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known as the <\/span><b>Festival of Lights<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is marked by <\/span><b>lighting the menorah, reciting special prayers, and eating fried foods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word Chanukah means <\/span><b>dedication<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because it celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Jewish calendar, Hanukkah begins on the <\/span><b>25th of Kislev<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and continues until the <\/span><b>2nd day of the month of Tevet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a date known as <\/span><b>Zos Chanukah<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Hanukkah Festival Historical Background<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <\/span><b>2nd century BCE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Holy Land was ruled by the <\/span><b>Syrian-Greek (Seleucid) Empire<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which tried to force Jews to follow Greek culture and religion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A small group of Jews, which was led by <\/span><b>A Jewish priest, Mattathias,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fought back, defeated the Syrian-Greek army, and <\/span><b>reclaimed the Holy Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>rededicated the Temple<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the worship of God, which is why this festival is celebrated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/holidays\/chanukah\/article_cdo\/aid\/102911\/jewish\/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chabad.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanukkah Festival is an eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights celebrating the rededication of the Holy Temple, marked by menorah lighting, prayers and traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4212,3815,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-6072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-hanukkah","9":"tag-prelims-pointer","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}