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Christmas and the start of Hanukkah are on December 25 this year, offering us a rare and poignant reminder of our shared humanity.

Hanukkah, or the festival of lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival. This year, it starts on the same day as Christmas.

For those unfamiliar with Jewish holidays and traditions, CEO Daniel Staffenberg of Jewish Community Federation of Richmond offered this quick summary.

Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after it was defiled by Syrian Greeks.

The rabbis say the real message of Hanukkah is one of religious freedom. It originates back to the Maccabean Revolt over two thousand years ago, when the Jews fought against the Greeks for their religious freedom.