This year, Hanukkah will start on Christmas Day and will last through the new year. The last time the two holidays coincided was almost 20 years ago in 2005. Start the day smarter. Get all the ...

Among the many celebrations, Christmas and Hanukkah are perhaps the most recognized. Although they fall around the same time each year, these two holidays are distinct in their origins ...

Whichever holiday you may be celebrating this week ... Take all of this together and the seasonal conjunction of Christmas and Hanukkah carries a certain challenge—coincidence or providence ...

It’s a busy holiday season this week, with Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa all taking place within days of each other. Hanukkah began on Wednesday and will end the day after New Year's Day.

This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005. Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two ...

Hanukkah, which is observed by lighting a menorah, reciting special prayers and eating holiday treats, can occur as early as Thanksgiving or as late as Christmas. Christmas, which commemorates the ...

The O.C. went on to have annual Chrismukkah specials. With Christmas and Hanukkah happening all at once this year, holiday baking in the Weiss-Pires household is perhaps a little more chaotic than ...

Dec. 24 ‘twas the night before Christmas, and the eve of the eight-day Jewish holiday Hanukkah. Members of both Jewish and Christian faiths celebrate their major holidays beginning on Dec. 25 ...

the first day of Hanukkah has fallen on Christmas only four times: Hanukkah is a Jewish eight-day wintertime festival. The focus of the holiday is the nightly lighting of the menorah, special ...

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 ...

Ah, yes, Hanukkah. The Festival of Lights. The "Jewish Christmas." The holiday that Adam Sandler wrote a song about. To Jewish people, however, Hanukkah isn't actually all that religious of a ...

Hanukkah is a relatively minor Jewish holiday commemorating the recapture and rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BC. Christians consider Christmas, which celebrates ...