For some interfaith families, a special holiday season as Hanukkah and Christmas overlap
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.
Quotation of the Day: Traditions Overlap as Christmas Meets Hanukkah
I thought Hanukkah couldn’t hold a candle to Christmas. Now I see, in the fullness of time, that it’s not a competition. It’s making room in your heart for all good things.” SUSIE FELBER, who was raised in a Jewish household that also celebrated Christmas because it helped her father,
How often does Hanukkah start on Christmas Day? It's pretty rare
Rabbi Akiva Hall lights the menorah during Congregation Beth Israel of Gulfport's ceremony on the seventh night of Hanukkah at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.
Hanukkah and Christmas will be celebrated this year on the same day: December 25
This year the first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day. Here's how some interfaith families are preparing to celebrate both holidays.
In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day
It's only happened four times since 1900 that Judaism's eight-day Festival of Lights would begin on what most Christians observe as their Lord’s Nativity
Christmas, Hanukkah overlap this year. But the faiths are always intertwined in Columbus
For years, a Christian woman has sung at a Jewish Temple, and a Jewish woman has sung at an Episcopal Church in Columbus. Now both of their faiths will celebrate holidays on the same day.
Hanukkah and Christmas collide: a unique chance for interfaith unity and celebration
For some rabbis, the intersection of the two religious holidays provides an auspicious occasion for interfaith engagement. “This can be a profound opportunity for learning and collaboration and togetherness,
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