Hanukkah chez nous; Christmas chez vous. Then one year, when we headed over to my dad’s to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, there was a new arrival: a Hanukah tee-pee!

Hanukkah, which commemorates a Jewish military victory in Jerusalem some 2,200 years ago, usually falls in December, and given Christmas' claim on the 25th, the two can occur within weeks or days ...

T he Jewish holiday of Hanukkah may not receive quite the same level of attention as Christmas. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday, which starts this year ...

When Sarah Levitin first visited her now-husband’s Catholic family for Christmas, she was not expecting to see a menorah in their home. It was 2016, and the first night of Hanukkah fell on ...

Happy Sunday and to those celebrating this week: Merry Christmas! Or, Happy Hanukkah! This year is unusual in that for only the fifth time in the last 100-plus years, the first night of Hanukkah ...

Rabbi Ralph Kingsley and Rev. Priscilla Whitehead write that this Dec. 25, the date of both Christmas and (this year) the first day of Hanukkah, is a time for reflection on what is possible when pe… ...

To Jewish people, however, Hanukkah isn't actually all that religious of a holiday –though because of its proximity to Christmas, it's often assumed the most important Jewish holiday. It's not.

The first night of Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, the overlap occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will happen next in 2035 and then not until 2054.

Hanukkah and Christmas fall on the same day in 2024, a calendar coincidence that's happened only nine times since 1900 and won't happen again until 2052. The light from both traditions makes the ...

My wish has come true this year! This year’s Evenings Under the Stars concert at South Shore Conservatory (SSC) brings the ...