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 ...

It was 2016, and the first night of Hanukkah fell on Christmas Eve. Levitin, who grew up attending Jewish day school and traveled to Israel on a Birthright trip, had not planned to light Hanukkah ...

Let’s just get this out of the way first: Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. But it is a festive winter holiday. While Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is considered a minor holiday in terms ...

Welcome to Chrismukkah. Monica Zourides’ mother is Jewish, but she married a non-Jew, so Zourides was raised celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. “I grew up with a Christmas tree and a ...

This year is special because the holidays align. Both the Christian holiday of Christmas and the start of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah are on the same day. Hanukkah begins on the eve of Kislev ...

This Christmas, as presents are being put away and holiday dinners wind down, Jewish families will light their first Hanukkah candle — marking only the fifth time since 1900 that these ...

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah may not receive quite the same level of attention as Christmas. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday, which starts this year ...

As Hanukkah is about to begin ... and Erica Perl’s “The Most Jewish Christmas Song Ever” that will strike a chord with theater lovers. In this action-packed, comic-style chapter book ...

For most Jewish people, Dec. 25 is just another day. Not this year. Christmas Day — Wednesday, Dec. 25 — also is the start of Hanukkah, something that hasn’t happened since 2005 and only ...

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 ...