They fall on the same year EVERY year. They just fall on different days of that year.
Christmas is always on December 25.
Hanukkah starts on the Hebrew calendar date of 25 Kislev, and lasts for eight days. Here are the coinciding secular dates for the upcoming years:
2011: December 20-28
2012: December 8-16
2013: November 27-December 5
2014: December 16-24
2015: December 6-14
Hanukkah lasts for 8 nights, and every few years, it overlaps with Christmas, including 2011. It won't overlap with Christmas again until 2016.
Hanukkah is an 8 day festival, so it can never fall entirely on the same day as Christmas. But if you are asking for dates when it overlaps with Christmas, the starting dates for Hanukkah in the next few years will be:December 21, 2011December 9, 2012November 28, 2013December 17, 2014December 7, 2015December 25, 2016December 13, 2017December 3, 2018December 23, 2019The holiday actually begins on the evening BEFORE the dates listed.
They are all celebrated around the same time!
No. Hanukkah comes out according to the Hebrew calendar, not the Western (Gregorian) one. Hanukkah was founded over 150 years before the onset of Christianity.
No. There is no "Jewish Christmas". The Jewish Savior is not yet born. Hanukkah is a holiday that occurs around the same time as Christmas but shares no similarities in terms of meaning or purpose.
Christmas and Hanukkah are not the same holiday. Christmas is the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday. Hanukkah is the Festival of Dedication that celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Hanukkah is an 8 day holiday. If you are talking about the first night of Hanukkah, then it has happened only four times in the last 100 years: in 1918, 1921, 1959 and 2005. If you are talking about years that Hanukkah overlapped with Christmas, there are more than 50 in the last 100 years. It overlapped in 2011. The next time will be 2016.
They are different for the same reason that Christmas and Groundhogs Day are different. They are just different holidays.
There is no "Jewish Christmas". The Jewish Savior is not yet born. If perhaps you are asking about Hanukkah, this is a holiday that occurs around the same time as Christmas but shares no similarities in terms of meaning or purpose.
Chanukah is an 8-Day festival. Every few years one of the days of Chanukah is on the same date as Christmas. It happened in 2011 and the next time will be 2016.
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Christmas always comes on the same date, December 25th. Christmas does not, however, always come on the same day. Christmas can fall on any day of the week.