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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Christmas eve

A person clears snow as a winter storm rolls through Western New York on, December 24, 2022, in Amherst, New York. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
December 25, 2022, 10:35 pm
Historic winter storm leaves much of US freezing, buried beneath snow for Christmas
60% of population under winter weather warnings, as hurricane-force winds and icy temperatures bring airports to a halt, tear down power grids across country
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and Jake Bleiberg
Visitors walk in Manger Square on Christmas eve outside the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on December 24, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 24, 2021, 8:10 pm
Israelis flood Nazareth for Christmas celebrations, while Bethlehem subdued
Tens of thousands visit northern town for festive events; in the West Bank, meanwhile, locals who depend on tourism for their livelihood say health crisis ‘worse than war’
By Claire Gounon
A woman prepares a Christmas tree decoration at a church in Bali, Indonesia on, Dec. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
December 24, 2021, 3:25 pm
As cases surge, world set to ring in another pandemic Christmas with restrictions
US travelers face misery as airlines cancel flights due to crewing problems caused by virus; Canada says Santa vaccinated and cleared for travel
By Andrew BEATTY
Palestinian scout band members parade through Manger Square at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Dec. 24, 2021 (Mahmoud Illean/AP)
December 24, 2021, 11:58 am
Coronavirus, and rain, dampen Christmas joy in Bethlehem
Local authorities counting on the Holy Land’s small Christian community to lift spirits for the holiday after Israel imposes tourist travel ban in attempt to stop spread of Omicron
By jack jeffery
Illustrative: Patrons buy tickets at the Cinema Village movie theater box office, December 25, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
December 23, 2021, 3:23 am
Put the ‘oy’ in Christmas joy with this Jewish guide to navigating Xmas in NYC
There is probably plenty to do in the City That Never Sleeps this December 25 – but we’re skipping all that in favor of a timeless Jewish tradition: Chinese food and a movie
By Jordan Hoffman
A villager wearing a traditional peasant galabiya gown inspects Christmas trees in El Kosheh, Egypt, on December 18, 2018. (RNS photo/ Fady Hadny)
December 28, 2018, 4:07 pm
Egypt’s Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, ponder changing date
With evergreen firs and red-robed Santas relatively new to rural Copts, a community with longstanding traditions has mixed reactions to moving the holiday to align with the West
By Mina Nader and Jacob Wirtschafter
A Palestinian band performs on Manger square in front of the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 24, 2018. (HAZEM BADER/AFP)
December 24, 2018, 3:10 pm
Pilgrims gather at Jesus’s traditional birthplace for Christmas
Palestinian scouts and a bagpipe band parade in Manger Square across from the Church of the Nativity, as Bethlehem gets into the spirit for Christian festival
By AFP
A participant joins in a 'Fiddler' reading at the Royal Theater in West Los Angeles, part of the Laemmle chain. (Courtesy of Laemmle.com/via JTA)
December 21, 2018, 5:04 am
A new Jewish Christmas tradition: Watching ‘Fiddler’ at your local movie theater
Showbiz hosts, singalongs, trivia and a costume contest are part of the fun at Laemmle Theatres’ holidays showings, which have spawned copycats in Chicago and Seattle
By Tom Tugend
Egypt Coptic Pope Tawadros II leads the Christmas Eve mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's new administrative capital, 45km east of Cairo, on January 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
January 6, 2018, 10:44 pm
Egyptian Copts mark Christmas Eve after bloody year
‘You are our family, you are from us, we are one and no one will divide us,’ President Sissi tells adoring crowds
By Maram Mazen
Still from filmmaker Larry Weinstein's 'Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.' (Courtesy)
December 25, 2017, 9:37 pm
Call Adam Sandler: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was Jewish, too
In ‘Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas,’ filmmaker Larry Weinstein shares why Christmas is just another Yiddishe holiday
By Tracy Frydberg
Illustrative: A man dressed as Santa Claus waves from a sidecar of a motorbike on Christmas Eve in Jerusalem Old City, Decemeber 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
December 25, 2017, 12:30 pm
In Bethlehem and Gaza, Christmas celebrations nixed over Jerusalem decision
Only prayer services go ahead as politics and inclement weather leave Manger Square, usually packed with tourists, nearly empty on Christmas Eve
By Dov Lieber and AP
Pope Francis celebrates mass on Christmas eve at St Peter's basilica in Vatican, December 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro)
December 25, 2017, 2:02 am
In Christmas homily, Pope says Bethlehem trek like today’s global migrations
Francis likens the journey of Mary and Joseph to those of millions of today’s immigrants ‘driven from their land’
By AP
Christmas decoration in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 13. 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)
December 13, 2017, 6:35 pm
Jerusalem to hand out 150 Christmas trees
City says it is preparing decorations, cleaning crews and traffic arrangements for holiday celebrations
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis kneels as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
December 25, 2016, 4:05 am
In Christmas message, pope laments children in war, poverty
Francis celebrates somber Eve Mass, urges his flock to reflect on how kids today aren’t always loved by their parents as Jesus was
By Nicole Winfield
A Christian worshipper lights a candle at the Church of the Nativity, built atop the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
December 25, 2016, 3:38 am
Thousands of faithful celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem
Security tight due to recent anti-Christian attacks in the region; one reveler says UN anti-settlement resolution like a ‘Christmas gift’
By ISMA'IL KUSHKUSH
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