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.
25 is extra special this year: It's the date Christmas is always celebrated and ... Confusion over the spelling of the Jewish holiday is because the name of the holiday is a Hebrew word and ...
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, or Chanukah — the Festival of Lights — is underway. It began at sundown on Wednesday, Dec. 25 ...
The Rev. Priscilla Felisky Whitehead said holiday gatherings are a perfect ... nor is the celebration of Christmas. And ...
Opinion: As Christmas and Hanukkah coincide, is it time for everyone to let there be holiday lights?
The Orthodox Jewish community I grew up in rejected Christmas lights as signs of unwanted assimilation. We lighted the menorahs in our windows and doorways for the holiday’s eight nights ...
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Jewish Federation hosts day of service on Christmas in the Capital RegionWhile Christmas is not a holiday for everybody, some who don’t celebrate used it as a way to give back to the community this ...
In fact, embracing Christmas music can even be a nod to the Jewish contribution to the season’s cultural fabric. These songs remind us that we’ve long been part of shaping what makes the holidays ...
For the past seven Christmases, I have led a caravan of people — Jews, and non-Jews, Blacks and whites — delivering toys to ...
We hear from Rabbi Susan Tendler of the Beth Tikvah Congregation about how they're celebrating this year.
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