Merry Hanukkah? Happy Challahdays? There’s no need for an identity crisis this year for those who celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, with both happily coinciding on Dec. 25. New Yorkers who ...

By the fourth century, the two widely recognized dates were Dec. 25 — celebrated as Christmas in what was ... the occasion of Jesus' birth into a happy excuse to drink, fornicate and gamble ...