Example sentences for: hanukkah

How can you use “hanukkah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The problem, as any rabbi will tell you, is that Hanukkah has traditionally been a minor Jewish festival.

  • Indeed, in acculturating to America while maintaining a Jewish identity, observers of Hanukkah may well be doing Judah Maccabee proud.

  • "Dion" recalls that when she asked her mother what Hanukkah was, her mother said it was a holiday celebrated by the people who own the movie studios and the banks.

  • Since then, Jews have become more integrated into American life, and Hanukkah has embedded itself in television, office parties, Hallmark stores, Barnes & Nobles, and other leading American cultural institutions.

  • In the early '50s, in a famous Middletown -style study of a Chicago suburb referred to as "Lakeville," sociologist Marshall Sklare found that lighting the Hanukkah candles ranked as the most popular "mitzvah," above hosting a Passover Seder and observing the Sabbath.


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