{"id":6713,"date":"2018-11-18T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T06:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/11\/18\/why-do-jews-play-dreidel-on-hannukah"},"modified":"2018-11-18T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:04:14","slug":"why-do-jews-play-dreidel-on-hannukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/11\/18\/why-do-jews-play-dreidel-on-hannukah\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Jews Play Dreidel on Hannukah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csM7xPtUJeM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/csM7xPtUJeM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short video (0:40)<\/a> from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Jewish Learning<\/a>,\u00a0briefly explains the historical reasons behind the custom of playing dreidel &#8211; a gambling game with spinning tops &#8211; on the holiday of Hannukah. To learn more about the secular origins of this game and how it became part of the Hannukah celebrations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/article\/the-origin-of-the-dreidel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short video (0:40) from\u00a0My Jewish Learning,\u00a0briefly explains the historical reasons behind the custom of playing dreidel &#8211; a gambling game with spinning tops &#8211; on the holiday of Hannukah. To learn more about the secular origins of this game and how it became part of the Hannukah celebrations, click here.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6889,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6889\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}