Candles on a large Hanukkah menorah shine in front of a Christmas tree at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in 2015. Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hanukkah is not the Jewish ...

Hanukkah and Christmas fall on the same date this year. This year marks the fifth time over the last 114 years Hanukkah has started on the same day as Christmas. It won't happen again until 2035.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — One holiday is ending, and another is beginning. Amid the glow of Christmas lights everywhere, are the Jewish people lighting their Menorahs. This is only the fourth time since ...

Two decades ago, when it became clear that a relationship between Melissa Lattin and Eric West was becoming serious, the 20-something pair realized they had something important to talk about. Lattin ...

Christmas! Hanukkah! The battle rages on! OK, fine, it’s not really a “battle,” but it is kind of fun as today is both Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah. Translation: Jewish kids will have ...

Some will light a menorah alongside the Christmas tree this year. Many multifaith families across Northeast Pennsylvania celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, but this year, the two holidays converge ...

MIAMI – For the first time in nearly 20 years, the first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day, marking a rare confluence of Jewish and Christian holidays, which occur on separate calendars. Many ...

For most Jewish people, Dec. 25 is just another day. Not this year. Christmas Day — Wednesday, Dec. 25 — also is the start of Hanukkah, something that hasn’t happened since 2005 and only occurs every ...

And while a tradition of giving children money - "gelt," in Yiddish - has been a part of Hanukkah for a few centuries, the present-buying mania, to say nothing of the spending on decorations and other ...

Jewish tradition may tell Jews to avoid the festivals of other cultures, especially any with religious origins. But it’s not so simple.