Hanukkah is not a holiday to sit all day in synagogue and pray. It’s more of a holiday to eat potato pancakes and jelly doughnuts, listen to comedian Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah song, light candles each ...

While a simple "Happy Hanukkah" will do the job, you may be able to impress your Jewish friends with a more creative Hanukkah ...

A rabbi who works on interfaith dialogue on why blending traditions may be well-meaning but only dilutes both holidays.

especially during Hanukkah. In the announcement, which was quoted by the Palestinian Arab news agency Quds Fars, Nasser al-Sin stated: "The occupation government and settler groups continue to ...

Hanukkah and Christmas fall on the same date this year. This year marks the fifth time over the last 114 years Hanukkah has started on the same day as Christmas. It won't happen again until 2035.

There’s a uniqueness to Hanukkah this year, as candles will be lit starting in 2024 and ending in 2025. The message could not be clearer for all of us: to both end and start the year with light.

This year, Hanukkah will be celebrated from Dec. 25, 2024, through Jan. 2, 2025. It’s only the fifth time since 1900 that Hanukkah has fallen on Christmas Day. Why is Hanukkah so late this year?

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light ...