My favorite Christmas present was a pair of pajamas from my mother. She bought them because of the cute little kittens on them... not realizing they were all saying things like "MOUSEL TOV" and "HAPPY HANAKCAT"....... they will forever be my favorite Christmas present ever! I literally could not stop smiling at how ironic they were and yet how appropriate.
after a month of non-stop Christmas all over his website, it's really heart warming for me to see someone that celebrates this season the way I do. I'm always in awe of the fact that there are families all around the world singing the same blessings at the same time yet making them their own through family traditions. I love how Judaism is what you make of it...kind of like the DIYs of religion. happy Chanukah. may your year be filled with light xoxo
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT DREIDELS: In Israel, the Hebrew letter Shin on the dreidel (ש) which represents the word שם (there), is replaced with the Hebrew letter Pe (פ) which represents the word פה (here). Therefore, the sentence is "A big miracle happened here", because the miracle happened in Israel. :)
In college my friends and I played "Drunken Driedel". Shin = spinner drinks, hey = spinner picks someone to drink, nun = everyone drinks, gimel = everyone but the spinner drinks. We drank Manischewitz wine to keep things kosher.
I am loving Vlognukah so far! It's so fun and educational for me, because even though I know some Jewish people I've never learned much about the culture and traditions like these.
This is lovely - my knowledge of Judaism and Hanukkah comes mostly from RE classes and independent curious googling but being able to put it into the context of a family with their traditions as opposed to something abstract is helping my understanding more than any of that. Nicely informative!
Really interesting to see Jewish tradition abroad! Here in Israel we say "Nes Gadol Haya Po" which means "here" instead of "there" with the letter "P - פ" and we don't really play the dreidel here :D But still latkes are latkes I guess... they are my fave :)
So interesting to see your traditions Hannah! :) I was wondering if you've thought about teaching your future kids all these Jewish traditions, or will you let them decide what religion/lack of it they want to define themselves as?
***** yep I'm thinking the same! :) happy hannukah! I just came home from Christmas holiday and started catching up with your vlognukkah, glad you posted this video right after i finished watching the previous ones! Thanks for sharing your traditions and thoughts with us!
"I've had a knee replacement I can't do that!!" killed me, haha. Really loved this video, your family seems to be the sweetest! I must say that I am absolutely loving Vlognukah so far and as someone who has always been very interested in religion (although I do not consider myself religious) I find it really interesting to hear you talk about it and show how Jewish traditions can be celebrated in today's society! Thank you for that :) On another note, THANK YOU for adding captions to all your videos!! As someone living with a hearing impairment, they really are useful (especially when English isn't your native language)
I'm Muslim and it's really interesting and educational to see Hanukkah through you and your family in these videos. It's been years since my sister learnt the Dreidel song and she regularly sings it at home so it's nice to put a context to the song with your videos :)
Happy Hanukkah Hannah! We also own a ton of dreidels, not least because my mom collects them. We also have a couple with a Pey instead of a Shin for Nes Gadol Hayah Poh (A great miracle happened here). Love watching your family make latkes. I swear, that base recipe is one of the things that unifies all of us Jewish people across the world. And they are DELICIOUS. Also, A+ on the food processor. When you have that many, it's the only way to go.
well the dreidel game looks fun, and you were right all i knew about it came from the song via southpark :]--- best present this year was the tom baker Dr Who scarf my mother knitted for me.
This series has been so interesting. I've only ever known one Jewish person (and it wasn't for long) and we didn't learn much about Judaism in school, so I've enjoyed learning you religious and familial traditions.
Ahhh I love Vlognukah! None of my friends are jewish, so I know very little about jewish culture and traditions. Vlognukah is the perfect way to learn about jewish traditions, and honestly Hanukah seems to be super fun and a great way to connect and celebrate with your family. I can't wait to see the next video! (and latkes looks super yummie)
I am in love with your voice and your love of Hanukkah (Chanukah) makes me very happy, it's absolutely adorable (not to sound patronizing it's just really sweet)
this is actually really fascinating for me, as an orthodox jewish person who lives in Israel, to see the differences and the similarities between how we celebrate Chanuka. we're obviously a bit more uptight about some of the rules (we say more prayers before we light the candles, and we also sing the whole of Maoz Tzur which has like six verses) but overall it's pretty much the same, especially the bag of old dreidels that gets to see the light of day only once a year (only here they have the letter Pey instead of Shin, since Shin stands for the word 'Sham' which means 'there' and Pey stands for 'po' which means 'here'). anyway, I'm loving vlognukah! thank you for sharing this!
I enjoyed this video because I felt finally represented on TH-cam without everything about being Jewish sounding so extreme... thank you for making me feel like I belonged and could relate❤️
your family is so lovely and funny omg!- also im really loving these videos since i don't know much about jewish tradition and it's very nice to see xxxxxx
It's so cool to learn about chanukah! I didn't know much about it, but I have taken a masterclass Hebrew that my school offered once where we learned the letters, which was really cool! I hope you're having amazing holidays!
We used to play dreidel in my grade school, but I haven't played since! Spending the last two nights of Hanukkah with a Jewish friend, I wonder if she's got any, and would want to play..... I've also been googling how to be a good guest for Shabbat because it's been YEARS. (You went to Christian events for free food, I went to Jewish; I miss college!) I am absolutely loving Vlognukah, btw Thank you for this 💗💗💗
don't know if anyone has already said this, but put the shredded potatoes in a tea-towel, roll it up and twist the bejezus out of it--works very well for making hash-browns; I presume it would work well for latkes as well.
we spend christmas morning with our jewish friends every year. latkes are my favorite part of the day! its our friends birthday too, so we give him birthday gifts and they give us christmas gifts!
Your family is so sweet, and both sides get on?! 😱 amazing. İ could totally relate to how you felt when your mum kept correcting your latke making methods, but they're always bloody right!!!
I was in the same class as a Jewish boy for 3 yrs and every Hanukkah his mom would come to class and we'd make ladkas(?) and play dredal(?). It was so much fun and ladkas are delicious!
I enjoy seeing something other than Christmas on TH-cam. And I will admit that I know almost nothing about Chanukah, so this is interesting and awesome :) I really want to play dreidel
looks like a lot of fun!! my best friend in elementary school was Jewish and invited me and my family over for one night of Hanukkah. their latkes were bomb and i won all of the chocolate coins (with help from my friend). itd be cool to do that again
It's lovely learning and watching you do all these things. I only learned about what Chanukkah was a few years ago but I didn't really know what it was. For Christmas I got a pair of boots and headphones :)
if you put a teaspoon of salt in your grated potato and leave them in a colander over a bowl for 20mins, the water seeps out. We always do and it makes amaaaazing latkes!
There's a little thing called "pirinola" in Mexico (I'm not sure if it's in all Latin America) and its similar to the dreidel. It has six sides, and you can also take one, take two, or have everybody putting one in the pile. There's no taking half, just everything... Jajaja and we use everything, from candies, to coins. Love seeing other people/religion traditions. 💗
I'm also Jewish and from Manchester, I'm not sure if you're aware but us Mancunian Jews have a special ashkatzfardi accent. It's a cross between ashkanasi accent and sefardi Hebrew accent and other non Mancunian Jews find it hilarious.
Hey dear Hannah, As a person with interest in history and no idea what to do with their life i was pleased to find out that you have studied history in university. So i have a few questions the answers to which are pretty important to me so id love it if you answered here or if you made another video on history in university. So here they are: How did you decide to study history and what did you do with history during your teenage years(did you read a lot about it, had real interest and passion?...)also: When you decided to study history in university did you have in mind a profession connected to history or you just had to go to university and chose history cus you found it cool. Final question: what are your mates from the history classes doing, working now? Please answer or write a blog, or lead us to someone who uses their history degree because obviously not everyone has what it takes to be a youtuber. Thanks for everything you do, you're awesome 😄 Love from Bulgaria❤
Sophie Jackson yes, i watched it recently and those questions came to mind. I dont know what other people like but i'd love some more history related videos
ooOOOOOOOOOooo so THAT is where it came from... sorry here in mexico we recieved something called "Pirinola" but unlike a dreidle it has 6 sides and it has a bit more of adding and taking, being: add 1 add 2 everyone adds 1 take 1 take 2 take all I always wondered how different it was from the original dreidle. Thanks Hanna, love you and your videos :3
It's so wild to me that we sing the same candle blessings with a wildly different tune, or sevivon sov sov sov with slightly different words. So cool to see how culture changes depending on location!
Great video! I live in Israel so on our dreidels we have a pey instead of a shin. Pey for poh, or here-- a great miracle happened here! Also, the miracle was two fold, yes the bit about the oil, but very importantly also the bit where the Maccabees beat the Greek forces even though they were severely outnumbered, regaining the ability to practice Judaism openly. That's why we usually light the menorah in a window-- we want to publicize the miracle that is our ability to practice Judaism proudly and without fear. Happy Chanukah!
I think that is also possibly why people tend to know more about Chanukah than they do about other Jewish holidays-- because public celebration is central to the holiday's focus.
Creative Reindeer the dreidal is specific to chanukah. it is like a symbolic thing for no real reason - similar to a santa hat. just fun and games. each letter does represent something, but tbh it is purely traditional and nothing religious about it!
I studied religion at GCSE and our ethics unit was Judaism.. so our teacher gave us all a dreidel each as a leaving present and we would try to spin them and pass them from book to book. We would also swap dreidels (I wanted the purple one but i stuck with my little green one). I hope you had a lovely new years!
My favorite Christmas present was a pair of pajamas from my mother. She bought them because of the cute little kittens on them... not realizing they were all saying things like "MOUSEL TOV" and "HAPPY HANAKCAT"....... they will forever be my favorite Christmas present ever! I literally could not stop smiling at how ironic they were and yet how appropriate.
after a month of non-stop Christmas all over his website, it's really heart warming for me to see someone that celebrates this season the way I do. I'm always in awe of the fact that there are families all around the world singing the same blessings at the same time yet making them their own through family traditions. I love how Judaism is what you make of it...kind of like the DIYs of religion. happy Chanukah. may your year be filled with light xoxo
Loving these videos Hannah! It's so interesting to learn about Hanukkah and Judaism
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT DREIDELS:
In Israel, the Hebrew letter Shin on the dreidel (ש) which represents the word שם (there), is replaced with the Hebrew letter Pe (פ) which represents the word פה (here).
Therefore, the sentence is "A big miracle happened here", because the miracle happened in Israel. :)
In college my friends and I played "Drunken Driedel". Shin = spinner drinks, hey = spinner picks someone to drink, nun = everyone drinks, gimel = everyone but the spinner drinks. We drank Manischewitz wine to keep things kosher.
Your mom & grandma are so adorable 😂😂😂
and sister
I really like how you say Chanukkah
I kind of want to be Jewish now
Chloe Holmes I believe they are accepting applications lol
Like dreidel looks fun
no its not that easy AndrewSichling
Jonah Savage I know it was a joke
Es iz shver tzu zayn a yid.
I am loving Vlognukah so far! It's so fun and educational for me, because even though I know some Jewish people I've never learned much about the culture and traditions like these.
this family is truly amazing
This is lovely - my knowledge of Judaism and Hanukkah comes mostly from RE classes and independent curious googling but being able to put it into the context of a family with their traditions as opposed to something abstract is helping my understanding more than any of that. Nicely informative!
Really interesting to see Jewish tradition abroad! Here in Israel we say "Nes Gadol Haya Po" which means "here" instead of "there" with the letter "P - פ" and we don't really play the dreidel here :D But still latkes are latkes I guess... they are my fave :)
Natalie Aviv the religious in Israel though still say נס גדול היה שם instead of פה.
+חיים דנציגר I've never heard of that and I live in Israel (and am religious). maybe in very chareidi circles...
Sploosh365 hareidi circles, yeah
So interesting to see your traditions Hannah! :) I was wondering if you've thought about teaching your future kids all these Jewish traditions, or will you let them decide what religion/lack of it they want to define themselves as?
***** yep I'm thinking the same! :) happy hannukah! I just came home from Christmas holiday and started catching up with your vlognukkah, glad you posted this video right after i finished watching the previous ones! Thanks for sharing your traditions and thoughts with us!
"I've had a knee replacement I can't do that!!" killed me, haha. Really loved this video, your family seems to be the sweetest! I must say that I am absolutely loving Vlognukah so far and as someone who has always been very interested in religion (although I do not consider myself religious) I find it really interesting to hear you talk about it and show how Jewish traditions can be celebrated in today's society! Thank you for that :)
On another note, THANK YOU for adding captions to all your videos!! As someone living with a hearing impairment, they really are useful (especially when English isn't your native language)
Thank you for sharing this part of the religion with us. It is refreshing and very informative but in a non judgemental, preachy manner xxx
i always love hearing how people do the prayers differently. my family does a different melody for the blessings!
this video made my heart happy. u could feel the love you all had for each other it was very sweet!
I'm Muslim and it's really interesting and educational to see Hanukkah through you and your family in these videos. It's been years since my sister learnt the Dreidel song and she regularly sings it at home so it's nice to put a context to the song with your videos :)
I AM SO HAPPY to learn more about Chanukah from you!
Happy Hanukkah Hannah! We also own a ton of dreidels, not least because my mom collects them. We also have a couple with a Pey instead of a Shin for Nes Gadol Hayah Poh (A great miracle happened here).
Love watching your family make latkes. I swear, that base recipe is one of the things that unifies all of us Jewish people across the world. And they are DELICIOUS. Also, A+ on the food processor. When you have that many, it's the only way to go.
well the dreidel game looks fun, and you were right all i knew about it came from the song via southpark :]--- best present this year was the tom baker Dr Who scarf my mother knitted for me.
This series has been so interesting. I've only ever known one Jewish person (and it wasn't for long) and we didn't learn much about Judaism in school, so I've enjoyed learning you religious and familial traditions.
Gran: "that's not good enough."
This could be said in many situations depending on your relationship with your gran.
hands down this is my favorite video
love how integrated this is
LOVING all of the Hannukah info!!! Please keep the cultural education coming!!
Ahhh I love Vlognukah! None of my friends are jewish, so I know very little about jewish culture and traditions. Vlognukah is the perfect way to learn about jewish traditions, and honestly Hanukah seems to be super fun and a great way to connect and celebrate with your family. I can't wait to see the next video! (and latkes looks super yummie)
"I got a knee replacement I can't do that!" Highlight 😂
I am in love with your voice and your love of Hanukkah (Chanukah) makes me very happy, it's absolutely adorable (not to sound patronizing it's just really sweet)
this is actually really fascinating for me, as an orthodox jewish person who lives in Israel, to see the differences and the similarities between how we celebrate Chanuka. we're obviously a bit more uptight about some of the rules (we say more prayers before we light the candles, and we also sing the whole of Maoz Tzur which has like six verses) but overall it's pretty much the same, especially the bag of old dreidels that gets to see the light of day only once a year (only here they have the letter Pey instead of Shin, since Shin stands for the word 'Sham' which means 'there' and Pey stands for 'po' which means 'here'). anyway, I'm loving vlognukah! thank you for sharing this!
I enjoyed this video because I felt finally represented on TH-cam without everything about being Jewish sounding so extreme... thank you for making me feel like I belonged and could relate❤️
It's April now and I'm watching this for the first time and I love this video and your family seems absolutely amazing.
Got the biggest blast from the past when you sang Sevivon Sov Sov Sov in the kitchen - that was the exact dance we had in primary school!
The greatest holiday vlog ever.
Hannah, you have no idea how happy this makes me to see a youtuber celebrate hanukkah! My best hanukkah gift so far is a dog shaped wine stopper!
I loved when you were all singing together.
this made me feel so warm inside oh my gosh
it's so interesting to see other families traditions
What a lovely family.
Thanks for sharing your family traditions Hannah, loving your Hanukkah vlogs
That was so fun to watch!!! I love to have a little glimpse to jewish traditions, the food the songs! The dancing!!! I love it
I'm loving this series!
A spinning Hannah is always a beautiful thing!
your family is so lovely and funny omg!- also im really loving these videos since i don't know much about jewish tradition and it's very nice to see xxxxxx
It's so cool to learn about chanukah! I didn't know much about it, but I have taken a masterclass Hebrew that my school offered once where we learned the letters, which was really cool! I hope you're having amazing holidays!
i love that youre showing all these traditions in a fun modern way cus so many people just dont understand judaism
We used to play dreidel in my grade school, but I haven't played since! Spending the last two nights of Hanukkah with a Jewish friend, I wonder if she's got any, and would want to play..... I've also been googling how to be a good guest for Shabbat because it's been YEARS. (You went to Christian events for free food, I went to Jewish; I miss college!)
I am absolutely loving Vlognukah, btw Thank you for this 💗💗💗
Thanks for sharing your family Hannah!
Happy Hanukkah... and Happy New Years
Happy Holidays!
I finally have a clue how it's celebrated apart from the food and the candles. Thanks ♥♦
The best gift I got for Christmas was spending time with my family. :) I'm glad you had some fun with yours!
Mad props on that kitchen; I'm kind of jealous.
This made me smile so hard, especially the parts with your family :') Hope your holidays are wonderful, Hannah!
don't know if anyone has already said this, but put the shredded potatoes in a tea-towel, roll it up and twist the bejezus out of it--works very well for making hash-browns; I presume it would work well for latkes as well.
I was watching with my mom and she got really emotional when you said "sham", considering we in Israel say "poe" ("here" instead of "there").
Your family seems like so much fun
I've loved vlognukah so much! They're educational and entertaining, and just so perfect (:
we spend christmas morning with our jewish friends every year. latkes are my favorite part of the day! its our friends birthday too, so we give him birthday gifts and they give us christmas gifts!
I've always been interested by Chanukah and its traditions. It seems so fun!
Your family is so sweet, and both sides get on?! 😱 amazing.
İ could totally relate to how you felt when your mum kept correcting your latke making methods, but they're always bloody right!!!
Loving this series. Learning loads!
I was in the same class as a Jewish boy for 3 yrs and every Hanukkah his mom would come to class and we'd make ladkas(?) and play dredal(?). It was so much fun and ladkas are delicious!
I enjoy seeing something other than Christmas on TH-cam. And I will admit that I know almost nothing about Chanukah, so this is interesting and awesome :) I really want to play dreidel
looks like a lot of fun!! my best friend in elementary school was Jewish and invited me and my family over for one night of Hanukkah. their latkes were bomb and i won all of the chocolate coins (with help from my friend). itd be cool to do that again
It's lovely learning and watching you do all these things. I only learned about what Chanukkah was a few years ago but I didn't really know what it was. For Christmas I got a pair of boots and headphones :)
i actually love seeing Chanukah videos, thank you for this❤x x. x
if you put a teaspoon of salt in your grated potato and leave them in a colander over a bowl for 20mins, the water seeps out. We always do and it makes amaaaazing latkes!
This made me so happy! Your family looks adorable!
There's a little thing called "pirinola" in Mexico (I'm not sure if it's in all Latin America) and its similar to the dreidel. It has six sides, and you can also take one, take two, or have everybody putting one in the pile. There's no taking half, just everything... Jajaja and we use everything, from candies, to coins. Love seeing other people/religion traditions. 💗
this was so lovely to watch!!
I'm also Jewish and from Manchester, I'm not sure if you're aware but us Mancunian Jews have a special ashkatzfardi accent. It's a cross between ashkanasi accent and sefardi Hebrew accent and other non Mancunian Jews find it hilarious.
your grandma and mom are adorable
I love seeing your family
Hey dear Hannah,
As a person with interest in history and no idea what to do with their life i was pleased to find out that you have studied history in university. So i have a few questions the answers to which are pretty important to me so id love it if you answered here or if you made another video on history in university. So here they are:
How did you decide to study history and what did you do with history during your teenage years(did you read a lot about it, had real interest and passion?...)also: When you decided to study history in university did you have in mind a profession connected to history or you just had to go to university and chose history cus you found it cool. Final question: what are your mates from the history classes doing, working now?
Please answer or write a blog, or lead us to someone who uses their history degree because obviously not everyone has what it takes to be a youtuber. Thanks for everything you do, you're awesome 😄
Love from Bulgaria❤
(excuse my poor grammar please)
alicia I think she has an old video with a friend of hers about going to university, so maybe that could answer some of your questions? 😊
Sophie Jackson yes, i watched it recently and those questions came to mind. I dont know what other people like but i'd love some more history related videos
well i want to study history too so id probably enjoy it too!
Both Hannah and Lucy Moon (who also studied history) have videos with uni advice on their channels :)
your mum and grandma are so funny! this was really adorable and interesting!! happy chanukah!
ooOOOOOOOOOooo so THAT is where it came from... sorry here in mexico we recieved something called "Pirinola" but unlike a dreidle it has 6 sides and it has a bit more of adding and taking, being:
add 1
add 2
everyone adds 1
take 1
take 2
take all
I always wondered how different it was from the original dreidle. Thanks Hanna, love you and your videos :3
KaloKaBankai yeah! I was about to comment the same thing. I wonder how it got here and who added two more sides...
Loving these daily videos💕
your fam's hanukkah is so much more fun than my family's what! i want in
That was cool, looks like a fun time of year! cute how your mum and grandma talking to the camera 😂
i love these videos, it's super interesting to learn about hanukkah and your family's little tradtions! For christmas i got a kitten!!
This was heartwarming. Thanks, Hannah! Xx
Why is everyone in your family so good and nice looking!?
Everyone has their own cooking traditions. Isn't interesting how food defines us as family.
It's so wild to me that we sing the same candle blessings with a wildly different tune, or sevivon sov sov sov with slightly different words. So cool to see how culture changes depending on location!
This was so much fun to watch!
This make me so happy! Its nice to finally see some Jewish culture being represented amongst all the Christmas stuff :)
Hi Hanna
This is so cute! Your family is amazing!
Such a fun video and I learnt so much! Latkes remind me of potato pancakes. So yummy!
Aww, your nan, bless her
you shouldve called this series hannahkkah!!!
Chag Sameach 🎉 🕎! I can't wait 😃
Love how your mum and nan are so natural at the vlogging thing! haha! The commenting was so fun! :)
Absolutely awesome...loved your video...Happy Hanukkah and Happy Christmas...
I LOVE THIS VIDEO I'M LAUGHING SO MUCH and is so cool learning about Jewish traditions!
I got a super nice new shoulder bag form my dad. I can't wait to use it when I go back to Uni.
Great video! I live in Israel so on our dreidels we have a pey instead of a shin. Pey for poh, or here-- a great miracle happened here! Also, the miracle was two fold, yes the bit about the oil, but very importantly also the bit where the Maccabees beat the Greek forces even though they were severely outnumbered, regaining the ability to practice Judaism openly. That's why we usually light the menorah in a window-- we want to publicize the miracle that is our ability to practice Judaism proudly and without fear. Happy Chanukah!
I think that is also possibly why people tend to know more about Chanukah than they do about other Jewish holidays-- because public celebration is central to the holiday's focus.
AHAHA the phone! Same in our house :') So much so - I thought it was ours! This is such a top RE lesson
Creative Reindeer the dreidal is specific to chanukah. it is like a symbolic thing for no real reason - similar to a santa hat. just fun and games. each letter does represent something, but tbh it is purely traditional and nothing religious about it!
Thanks for letting me know! Really interesting stuff... I didn't even know the song though :'S
I am a Jew and I have been looking for channel like this for years. So happy I have found this. Fellow Jews!!!
I studied religion at GCSE and our ethics unit was Judaism.. so our teacher gave us all a dreidel each as a leaving present and we would try to spin them and pass them from book to book. We would also swap dreidels (I wanted the purple one but i stuck with my little green one).
I hope you had a lovely new years!
you and your family is adorable! :) love all the traditions!