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

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 ...

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 ...

Jewish communities around the world will soon celebrate an important victory in their history. Last year, Hanukkah overlapped ...

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 ...

Hanukkah begins on the eve of Kislev 25 and continues for eight days. Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more! Kislev (or Chislev) is the ninth month on the ...

Christmas and Hanukkah are holidays with their own meanings and traditions. This year, the two are linked in a special way, because the first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Day. That’s only ...

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. South Florida ...

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 ...

Lillian Weiss-Pires, 8, said she loves Christmas because it feels cozy. She enjoys decorating the tree and opening gifts. "I like to imagine like Santa coming in and dropping down the presents," she ...

A rabbi feels “the value of being in community with people who were different from me.” As the only child of a Jewish father and mother who had converted to Judaism before I was born, our annual ...

Wait. Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year? December 25th! Thank God! Finally! Can we please keep this up?! My extended family is a mishmash of Jews and Catholics, ...