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Jewish people do not celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, a figure whose birth and death are a significant aspect of Christian theology and soteriology.
The holiday of Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday that celebrates the victory of the Jewish Maccabean army over the Greek-Syrian forces that had taken over the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
The modern state of Israel, which was founded in 1948, exists within the boundaries of what is believed to have constituted ancient Canaan, or the biblical land of Israel.
There are two reasons usually given for why Judaism has three daily prayer services.
Simchat Torah marks the end of the annual cycle of liturgical Torah readings, and the beginning of the new cycle.