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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as Christmas ...

It's also rare for Hanukkah to start on Christmas Eve. It's happened twice in the last 50 years: in 1978 and 2016. Final ...

Some will light a menorah alongside the Christmas tree this year. Many multifaith families across Northeast Pennsylvania ...