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PS/IS 178 George Pinkhasov
802/8G 11/26/12
“Celebrations of Light” By Nancy Luenn In the book “Celebrations of Light” by “Nancy Luenn” there a lot of holidays in the book that has to do with lights. This story is about how holidays are celebrated across the world. My task was to compare and contrast these holidays to others from around the world.
Hanukkah is my favorite holiday because it’s the only holiday that I celebrate with my family. Hanukkah is my favorite holiday because it is long. Lighting the candles for Hanukah brings joy for me. Since there is 8 days of Hanukkah you get 8 days of presents. The best part of Hanukkah for me is that it is on my birthday so I get double the presents.
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States honoring African heritage and culture, marked by participants lighting a kinara (candle holder). Besides falling at a similar time of the year and both including the practice of lighting candles, they are not related.
A holiday that has similarities and differences with Hanukkah is Christmas. One similarity is that both holidays families’ parents give out presents to their kids. But Christmas is celebrated for one day Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days. So each day you get one present. On Christmas you get all the presents

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