{"id":31068,"date":"2024-12-25T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=31068"},"modified":"2024-12-25T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:39:18","slug":"hannukah-begins-today-yes-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/hannukah-begins-today-yes-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannukah begins today: yes, on Christmas Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FinalChristmasHannukah.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FinalChristmasHannukah.jpg 544w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FinalChristmasHannukah-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 85vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Christmas is about baby Jesus&#8217; birth while Hannukah is the Jewish eight-day festival of lights. As reported in <em>Euro News<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/92Lav\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/92Lav <\/a>), Hannukah begins this year on December 25, &#8220;<em>marking only the fifth time since 1900 that the two holidays have overlapped<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry Christmas to you, if you celebrate Jesus as the Light of the World \u2764\ufe0f!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Hannukah to you, if you celebrate the menorah as a symbol of light \u2764\ufe0f!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the double power of the lights of love and hope illuminate our darkened world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Joy to the World (Traditional)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_N40D2pk-w0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Les anges dans nos campagnes\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyNcjfx5chs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe title=\"Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah! (Most Famous Kids Song for Chanukah)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GTHftDQvAxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe title=\"Hanukkah (Chanukah Song)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aS2_6rNf_1k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29970\" style=\"width:260px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is about baby Jesus&#8217; birth while Hannukah is the Jewish eight-day festival of lights. As reported in Euro News (https:\/\/shorturl.at\/92Lav ), Hannukah begins this year on December 25, &#8220;marking only the fifth time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31073,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31068\/revisions\/31073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}