How Blue and White Became the Colors of Hanukkah

It's no secret that the American holiday calendar is thoroughly color-coded. The Fourth of July is red, white and blue, for obvious reasons. Halloween has pumpkin orange, and the Thanksgiving table tends to be festooned in the brown and red colors of the harvest season. And as those autumnal hues begin to fade, the red and green of Christmas take their place.

But, though those colors can tend to dominate the American landscape in December, they aren't the only shades of the season.