The Wonderful Food of Chanukah 0 December 14, 2020 16:21 by Alice Nott Rebecca Herman Today, to commemorate this triumph over the Greeks, Jewish families and friends come together to light the Chanukah (an 8 branched candelabrum) and show the world that despite all the attempts to annihilate the Jewish people, they still shine bright and proud today. And like most Jewish festivals, there is a bunch of scrumptious traditional food to go with it. Chanukah, or the ‘festival of lights’ is a Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Maccabees (a small Jewish army) against the Greeks in the second century BCE. The story takes place in modern day Israel and starts with the Greeks ruling over the Jewish people who lived there at the time. The Jewish people were forced to adopt Greek beliefs or risked death, and so had to practice their Judaism in hiding.