The reason for the different dates is that the Jewish calendar is based on a lunar cycle ... The previous years the holidays ...

Christmas and Hanukkah will coincide on December 25, 2024, due to the differences between the solar-based Gregorian calendar ...

It's a rare occasion: the two holidays haven't started on the same date since 2005, and won't do so again until 2035.Start ...

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

This year's Hanukkah, which begins on Christmas Day, is providing an opportunity for interfaith engagement between Jewish and ...

"I had agreed to something without understanding how deeply it would affect me and how much I would come to cherish the very ...

The rise in intermarriage is particularly pronounced among American Jews: A Pew Research survey from several years ago found ...

In this guest column, a Baton Rouge rabbi tells the story of Hanukkah and how it encourages her to favor justice and have ...

By MARIAM FAM and LUIS ANDRES HENAO The Rev. Shannon Blosser sees how his son loves church — the music, the singing, the ...

For Rabbi Daniel Fellman, Wednesday is a day to celebrate. That day, Christians will gather around the tree to open presents ...

This year, the first night of Hanukkah will fall on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005. Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two different months, with ...

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas day, marking a rare confluence of ...