What Is A Sufganiyot And What Do They Symbolize?
What Is A Sufganiyot And What Do They Symbolize? These traditional Jewish jelly doughnuts are cooked in oil and used to symbolize the oil lamps that burned for eight nights in the Hanukkah story. Why do we eat sufganiyot on Hanukkah? Why do we eat latkes (fried potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly donuts) on Chanukah?