Martin's Musings

Despite what so many people think, Hanukkah is not “Jewish Christmas.”

Many years, it doesn’t even fall at the same time as Christmas. Oh, sure, it’s usually within the same month. But it’s not uncommon for Hanukkah to be over days, or even weeks, before December 24. 

In fact, there’s an old joke that you shouldn’t ask a Jewish person when Hanukkah is because we don’t even know the answer, and we’ll just have to Google it. There’s a lot of truth to that.