Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers of that fact every year, lamenting ...

Hanukkah falling on Christmas — sometimes dubbed " Christmukkah " — occurs rarely. Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah ...

Columnist David Marcus fondly recalls his Jewish father, who made sure Christmas was special for him and his brother.

Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two different months, with Christmas coming on the 25th of December on the Gregorian calendar, and Hanukkah starting on the 25th day of the ...

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For the past seven Christmases, I have led a caravan of people — Jews, and non-Jews, Blacks and whites — delivering toys to ...

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ATLANTA — For the first time in 20 years, Christmas and the first day of Hanukkah are being celebrated on the same day, creating an opportunity for communities to come together across Atlanta. Shay ...

Hanukkah, or the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival. This year, it starts on the same day as Christmas.

The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of ...