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Winter Holidays and Celebrations: Home
Learn about different holidays celebrated around the world!
Winter scene taken at Shipka Pass in Bulgaria. From Wikipedia Commons, photo by Psy guy.
Winter Celebrations
As the months get colder and nights longer, many religious and cultural celebrations take place around the world during the final month of the year. Many of these celebrations involve lighting candles or fires to stave off the long nights. Large meals are shared with family and friends along with song and dance.
Christmas, Easter, Passover, Yom Kippur, Bar or Bas Mitzvah, and other significant feasts and rituals of the Christian and Jewish faiths are discussed in this program.
Listeners share their unusual traditions they practice with their families at holiday time — from a family that wears underwear on their heads to "The Christmas Stick" and the "Hanukkah Butt."
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