One well-known sweet item associated with Hanukkah is the foil-wrapped, coin-shaped chocolate known as gelt. What's the deal with this stuff, anyway? Candy money might seem like an odd holiday ...

Gelt, meaning gold or money, is traditionally gifted at Hanukkah. While now it is common for children to receive chocolate coins, the archaeology team discovered far rarer relics. “All of our ...

When it came time for the annual Christmas assembly at her children’s school, the professor of art at Alabama State University gave her children plenty of gelt, the foil-wrapped chocolate coins ...