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Everyone knows that the holiday season is a prime-time source for funny tweets, smashing jokes, good ol' dad jokes, and anything that combines family drama, constant overeating, low-key cocktail intoxication, and you name it. For Christmas, you've got one kind of a funny drill, for Thanksgiving, it’s another kind of fun, and Hanukkah offers a whole other fountain of hilarity to tweet about.

And this year, The Festival of Lights started on December 10 and it’ll be rolling until the 18th, so you've got plenty of time to reflect on Jewish goodness like eating latkes for breakfast and coming up with gifts for a toddler who expects a present every consecutive night. Nobody said parenting was easy, but try doing it on Hanukkah.

So this time, we’ve rounded up some of the funniest Hanukkah tweets that have been surfing around social media and cracking smiles on their way.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I accept your dare and I raise you by two. I live in a colorful country in which we regularly celebrate two Christmases (yes, the Catholic/protestant and the Orthodox one), Hanukkah, and two Eids, because we are traditionally that mixed as a society. BAM! Unfortunately, we don't yet have a substantial population of Hindus, Buddhists, etc. to add to the toll.

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Traditionally, Hanukkah starts on the 35th day of Kislev (the 9th month of the Hebrew calendar.) For eight nights that typically happen somewhere between late November and mid-December, candles are lit in a menorah.

During each lighting, people recite blessings and prayers, sing songs, and exchange gifts. Although it used to be a somewhat minor religious holiday, Hanukkah has become one of the most awaited celebrations since it grew popular in the 20th century.

According to Tatjana Lichtenstein, the director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Hanukkah “offered an opportunity for Jews to participate in the holiday celebrations complete with gift-giving and merry-making without giving up their distinct religious and cultural identities.” 

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you tell her how Superman flew out all the pilgrims?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you do know the "eight gifts" was invented by hollywood in the 60's and never met a Jewish person, my family included who ever had a gift each night.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My son did the same on the first night. His birthday is at the end of December.

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Historically, instead of candles, the celebrants would light oil lamps just like the lights from the Hanukkah story. “In the Hebrew Bible, in the Old Testament in several places, it speaks of pure-beaten olive oil for the light. Olive oil was the main oil of this region and very little other oil was ever used,” Rafael Frankel, an Israeli archeologist, told NPR.

It turns out that Jews started using candles in the 18th century because they were a cleaner and cheaper alternative. People from Eastern Europe “couldn’t get olive oil in the middle of the winter because it’s expensive,” Sten Fine, the director of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, told TIME.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad did this every single Christmas. He gave us crap he wanted. "Oh, you don't want that Jackson Brown CD? I guess I'll take it then." Every god damned Christmas since we were kids.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As the old saying goes, glitter and herpes are with you forever...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had to look up what latkes are. Didn't realize we often eat a traditional Jewish food every other week. (Not Jewish, no Jewish ancestors) We mostly have apple-sauce with it. Lovely food!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the Netherlands we have Sinterklaas, children get ( little)presents in their shoes for 14 days..

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I can imagine that little kids don't quite understand not to touch fire yet.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except you light at night, not morning, and presents as a tradition is connected to education, as written in the Talmud in thee 4th and 5th centuries. The Lights have to do the miracle. Two very separate things.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, this is from 2012. Could have sworn it was from 2020, because I wouldn't put it past this year to pull armageddon.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why will never be as sneaky as our mothers-they will always have more life experience, and probably done whatever you try to get away with..

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the nights we gave a gift to a child or children in need instead of our daughter.

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