Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day. Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900.

The glow from Christmas tree bulbs will shine with the brightness of menorah candles on Wednesday.

For the first time in almost 20 years, this week the beginning of Hanukkah — the eight-day Jewish festival of lights — falls on Christmas Day, a rare quirk of the calendar that has occurred only four times since 1900.

This year, the first night of Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish Festival of Lights, begins on December 25th, Christmas Day. This has only happened a handful of times in the last 100 years: 2005, 1959, 1921,