The reason the two don't always sync—and sometime coincidentally do—is based on the two different calendars. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle. The civil calendar in use around ...

Hanukkah's start date on the Gregorian calendar varies year by year because the Jewish calendar is based on luni-solar calendar cycles. According to Chabad, months under the Hebrew calendar follow ...

It comes from reaching out." Why is Hanukkah so late this year? The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar, which sets ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year. And for once, the most wonderful day. You can thank a Jewish Leap Year and other calendrical quirks. Christmas and Hanukkah are coming. On the same date.

Hanukkah, which follows the Jewish calendar, always begins on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month of the Jewish calendar. Hanukkah can begin as early as November each year and will likely ...

For that, you can credit the fact that the Christian and Jewish faiths follow different calendars, one based on the sun's travels, the other also incorporating cycles of the moon. That results in ...