Hanukkah chez nous; Christmas chez vous. Then one year, when we headed over to my dad’s to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, there was a new arrival: a Hanukah tee-pee!

Hanukkah, which commemorates a Jewish military victory in Jerusalem some 2,200 years ago, usually falls in December, and given Christmas' claim on the 25th, the two can occur within weeks or days ...

When is Christmas? Christmas is annually on Dec. 25. This year, Christmas is Wednesday, Dec. 25. When is Hanukkah . Hanukkah begins on the eve of Kislev 25 and continues for eight days.

Why is a Christmukkah like this so rare? Christmas, which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, is celebrated on the same day each year. Hanukkah recalls a Jewish revolt against Greek-Syrian ...

Happy Sunday and to those celebrating this week: Merry Christmas! Or, Happy Hanukkah! This year is unusual in that for only the fifth time in the last 100-plus years, the first night of Hanukkah ...

Christmas and Hanukkah Coincide This Year. Please Don't Call It 'Chrismukkah.' A rabbi who works on interfaith dialogue on why blending traditions may be well-meaning but only dilutes both holidays.

Next week, they’ll open Christmas presents in the morning and follow their first night of Hanukkah ritual: General Tso’s chicken, fried rice and lo mein with Hanukkah candles.

But why has Hanukkah only started on Christmas just five times in the last 124 years? It has to do with the Hebrew calendar. What we know as the year 2024 or the soon-to-be 2025 is because of the ...

Significance of Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the same day 05:24. This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005.

When Sarah Levitin first visited her now-husband’s Catholic family for Christmas, she was not expecting to see a menorah in their home. It was 2016, and the first night of Hanukkah fell on ...

Hanukkah begins on Christmas this year, marking a rare coincidence of the Jewish and Christian holidays, which occur according to different calendars. The alignment invites reflection on how two ...

This year, Hanukkah will be observed from Wednesday, Dec. 25, to Thursday, Jan. 2. Christmas accident: Another Christmas tree incident?Rehoboth Beach tree falls over, is righted ...