Hanukkah Celebration 2023

• Hanukkah festival is being celebrated from December 7 to December 15 in 2023.

• Hanukkah (also known as Chanukah) is Judaism's beloved 'Festival of Lights'. Hanukkah is celebrated for eight nights and days.

• It begins on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, which can be any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

• In Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication".

• The festival marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BC when a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from the occupation of foreign forces.

• The festival is celebrated by lighting the candles of a nine-branched candelabrum, commonly called a menorah or Hanukkah.