Hanukkah is an eight-night Jewish festival that starts on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. It remembers the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BCE, after the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It also recalls the tradition that a one-day supply of oil kept the Temple menorah burning for eight days. Each night, families light one more candle on a menorah (hanukkiah), and many eat foods fried in oil, like latkes and sufganiyot.