Hanukkah, the annual Jewish festival lasting eight nights and days. commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE, is now underway.
Former Broadcaster and practicing Jew Stephen Ruben says for his people, its a festival.
Ruben says in every Jewish Temple there is an eternal light. When the temple in Israel was retaken about 160 BCE, they wanted to light it, but found they had enough oil for just one day.
Ruben they can be thousand of years old, or maybe for more recent history. Especially when it comes to music.
Among the other traditions, food cooked in oil will be prepared, symbolizing the miracle oil that lit the menorah when the Temple in Israel was retaken in 160 BCE. That oil lasted eight days, defining the length of the festival for ever more.