Christmas is a time of joy, of being together with family and loved ones, of giving and receiving.
Here in the land where Jesus was born, Christmas is not an official holiday, but is very much celebrated by the Christian communities, as well as visitors.
Manger Square at Christmas
The main mass takes place in St. Catherine’s Church Bethlehem, and in the Grotto of Nativity in the Church of the Nativity. The celebrations start long before the mass, with the arrival of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Click here for full details. [Read more...]
Holidays are serious business. If you celebrate Hanukka, there’s getting the Hannukiah and the candles or oil lamps and making sure it’s done at the right time. Then of course there is the food and no Hanukkah is complete without your latke (potato pancake) and soufganiot.
And what if one of you celebrate one holiday and your partner the other? That can be serious business.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=d67fde23-0e65-49c3-bc76-2b072a5cd99e)
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