In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 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 on ...

Every December, in greetings, commercials and ordinary conversations across the United States, Hanukkah and Christmas get blended together as “the holidays.” It’s a well-meaning attempt to be ...

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 ...

Every winter, we hear about a “December dilemma” because of Hanukkah and Christmas occurring in the same month. This year, Hanukkah started on Christmas Day! Since 1900, this has happened only four ...

NEW YORK -- Christmas has Elf on the Shelf. Now Hanukkah has Mensch on a Bench -- not to mention Maccabee on the Mantel. Christmas has gingerbread houses; Manischewitz sells Chanukah House kits, using ...

Sacred Songs for Hanukkah, Advent, and Christmas,” will be conducted by music director Matthew Rupcich of Hawley, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 35 South Franklin St., ...

I’m definitely not the only person who noticed how, the day after Halloween, my TV was suddenly flooded with Christmas ...

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