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 ...

On the front of the menorah, chocolate coins — also called gelt — were ... in the second century B.C., when a small group of Jewish people drove out occupying Greek forces.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“I have a lot of Jewish friends. I have a lot of Catholic friends ... After the prayers, from a ladder of a Lenox fire truck, chocolate coins showered down. Fried food is the traditional Hanukkah ...

Antiochus forbade Jews to practice their religion and demanded all copies of the Jewish Law be burned ... giving children gifts of chocolate coins and playing with a dreidel.

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 ...