Some Jewish communities would also tip tradespeople ... as the holiday's focus shifted more toward children, the coins morphed into chocolate ones, and they have remained this way ever since.

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat ... including dreidel and chocolate coins. A dreidel is a four-sided spin top with a letter on each side — nun ...

The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle ... (originally a slang term for real money but now tending to mean chocolate coins). Another theory around Hanukkah becoming a gift-giving holiday ...

The gifts have included gelt or money, but today, chocolate coins or other gifts are presented. The gifts are a reward for studying the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible), according to the fellowship.

During the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ... but will often include sweets such as chocolate coins known as chocolate gelt, another Hanukkah tradition. Each player then takes a turn spinning ...

Celebrations of Hanukkah, the eight-day long Jewish festival of lights ... doughnuts and lots and lots of gelt (chocolate coins). Here are some of those events taking place over the holiday.

In Jewish-American households, Ashkenazi-fied crowd-pleasers like potato latkes, gelt (chocolate coins), and sufganiyot (jelly donuts) have become synonymous with the eight-night celebration.

While now it is common for children to receive chocolate coins, the archaeology team discovered ... especially during this difficult time for the Jewish people. I hope that people will be drawn ...

But chocolate babka is considered a Jewish American innovation ... far more thrilling to cut into than peeling those dusty gold coins at Hanukkah. Next we have a black and white babka that ...

Hanukkah is one of the most popular Jewish religious observances but ... giving children gifts of chocolate coins and playing with a dreidel. A menorah is a multi-branch candelabra used during ...