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There are no Jewish festivals specifically tied to the solar calendar or to the winter solstice. The Hebrew calendar is a LUNAR calendar, which is kept (roughly) in synchronization with the solar year by inserting "leap months".

The relatively minor holiday of Hannukah is celebrated for eight days beginning on Kislev 25, a date that generally occurs around mid-December, and which occasionally overlaps the northern hemisphere winter solstice on December 21. However, Hannukah can start as early as the first of December, or as late as the 24th of December.

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