Tradition links the dreidel back to the time of the persecution of the Jews by the Seleucid Greeks, the villains of the Hanukkah story. Rabbi Gamliel Rabinowitz spins a Dreidel on the third night ...

If they feared they were about to be discovered, they would hide the Torah and bring out the dreidel to play. Hanukkah gelt means ‘Hanukkah money’ in Yiddish. Families often give children ...