Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

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An elderly Jewish man sought to stop the Bondi Beach Hanukkah attackers and was their first victim, according to dramatic dashcam footage that emerged on Tuesday. Boris Gurman, 69, came upon the ...

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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (center), the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, celebrates Christmas Mass at the Holy Family Parish during his visit to Gaza, December 21, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP An ...

On the second day of Hanukkah, a 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man named Menachem Raichman was grabbed by the neck with force while on a New York subway train to Crown Heights. Witnesses reported that ...