HANUKKAH HAPPENINGS

The Friday file: Hanukkah starts Sunday night, last year it began on Christmas day. It starts on different days on the Gregorian calendar but always starts on the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar. The reason it varies is the Hebrew calendar is luni-solar. It adds seven leap months every 19 years to account for the ‘epact’, or the lunar year being 11 days shorter than the solar year.