Chanukah and Hanukkah refer to the same holiday, and both are correct spellings for the Jewish Festival of Lights. While the ...

Christmas celebrations at the White House date back to 1800, but Hanukkah wasn't acknowledged until much later.

The Hebrew calendar is lunar, as opposed to the Gregorian calendar that most of the world uses. Because of that, the start of ...

Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that’s observed in late fall or early winter. Hanukkah, with its own set of ...

Hanukkah 2025 is almost here. Check out when it begins this year and how to greet loved ones who celebrate the holiday.

I extend my warmest greetings to the Jewish community in the United States and all around the world as they begin their celebration of Hanukkah—the ...

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

In America, the fourth quarter holiday season tends to revolve around the big three: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. They dominate store displays, movie marathons, and seasonal playlists from ...

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Hanukkah, one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays, is weeks away from beginning. Known as the festival of lights, Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday in the Jewish faith marked by the nightly ...

Jewish communities in California and across the world will soon celebrate Hanukkah, the “festival of lights” commemorating an important victory for Judaism, with latkes, lighting menorahs and more.

In a rare convergence that will not happen again for tens of thousands of years, the Hanukkah and Thanksgiving holiday celebrations began simultaneously Wednesday and signs of these two events were ...