Hanukkah Gifts, Chocolate & Baskets

What is Hanukkah
Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish Holiday beginning on the 25th day of the month of Kislev, which falls anytime from late November to late December. This year, Hanukkah 2009 starts at nightfall of Sunday, December 11. Hanukkah celebrates the re-kindling of the Jewish Temple menorah at the time of the Maccabee rebellion. The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each night of the holiday - one on the first night, two on the second, and so on.

It is a Hanukkah tradition to play with the dreidel/draydel or sevivon in Hebrew which is a four-sided spinning top that children play with on Hanukkah. A festive family occasion with special foods and songs, Hannukah is also when children traditionally receive and give Chanukah Gifts or money, known as Hanukkah gelt (money) each evening after the candles are lit. Some people prefer actual coins for Chanukah gelt but a popular fad is the coins made of chocolate! You can also use chocolate gelt to play the customary dreidel game on one of Chanukah nights. Chanukah Gelt comes in a large variety, in silver or gold foil-wrapped dark or milk chocolate coins. We also offer an assortment of candy-filled dreidel/tops.

Gifts are the modern incarnation of the tradition to hand out Chanukah gelt, Yiddish for money. At Oh! Nuts we make that gift-giving task as easy and convenient as possible. We also recommend our Chanukah Gift Baskets and trays filled with a spectacular assortment of chocolate, nuts and candy in a variety of ceramic, silver plated Lucite or plastic dishes.