While a version of this story was originally published in 2023, the social and economic stress and anxiety that many feel at the outset of 2025 add a new layer of relevance to this examination of ...

Because Judaism uses a modified lunar calendar, rather than the familiar solar calendar, the secular dates of Hanukkah vary from year to year.

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(CNN) — Here is some background ... Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication and Feast of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is not the Jewish version of Christmas, but often ...

Hanukkah and Christmas converged near Downtown Crossing ... dancing with a group of Jewish students as a band played in the background. “It looked like they needed to dance, so I had to join ...

BUT PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND. THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE HERE LAST NIGHT. THE FIRST NIGHT OF HANUKKAH, ON CHRISTMAS, AND THERE WERE PEOPLE HERE AND NOT JEWISH PEOPLE ...

This year, one of those communities — Judaism — saw its celebration of Hanukkah coincide with Christmas ... Jews come from all different ethnic backgrounds, so you may not recognize someone ...

For me, as an Iranian Christian coming from an Islamic background, Christmas and also Hanukkah have special and deep meanings. As over 2 million Muslim background Iranian Christians celebrate their ...

Celebrating both Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah on Wednesday, Madonna gave a behind-the-scenes look into their practice, set to Andy Williams’ Christmas classic “It’s The Most ...

TO ME. HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY HANUKKAH, MERRY CHRISTMAS. MAY THE LIGHTS The Jewish community in Lancaster City gathered Wednesday night to light the first of the eight candles for Hanukkah ...

The music icon was joined by her four daughters for a double holiday post on Instagram Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has ...