Hanukkah is always observed on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar. That Hebrew calendar is based ...

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

Wednesday marks the first time the start of Hanukkah and Christmas have fallen on the same day since 2005 and only the fifth ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

When does Hanukkah start this year? And what's the correct way to light a menorah? Here are answers to some of the key ...

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

A "Christmukkah" as rare as this one occurs due to the Hebrew calendar not aligning with the Gregorian calendar, causing the start of the Hanukkah holiday to move dates annually. The holidays have ...

Hanukkah, which commemorates a Jewish military victory in Jerusalem some 2,200 years ago, usually falls in December, and ...

Hanukkah commemorates the successful Jewish revolt against occupying powers in ancient Jerusalem, said Frances Flannery, a ...

Christmas is synonymous with Dec. 25 – but this year, so is Hanukkah. The Jewish holiday typically has a different start date each year, but Hanukkah and ...

For the first time in about two decades, December 25 marked not only Christmas but also the start of Chanukah.

The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of the ...