The eight-day "festival of lights" is observed by Jews around the world and marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second ... calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar. The Jewish ...

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

Plenty of newsworthy moments are in store for 2025. Here's a list of dates you should circle on your calendar.

Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two different months, with Christmas coming on the 25th of December on the Gregorian calendar, and Hanukkah starting on the 25th day of the ...

The eight days and nights of Hanukkah are fixed, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, one of the months of the Hebrew calendar ... Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC after Jewish fighters ...

The Jewish calendar is synced to the moon, so the first day of the month is a new moon and the ... used to light the menorah and rededicate the Second Temple of Jerusalem actually lasted eight ...

The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which ...

Almost halfway through the countdown to Christmas, a popular Jewish holiday is set to also begin that evening. Hanukkah, ...

Hanukkah begins on Christmas this year, marking a rare coincidence of the Jewish and Christian holidays, which occur according to different calendars. The alignment invites reflection on how two ...

Ferocious winds that drove the flames and led to chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat and are not expected to be as ...