Thanksgiving falls during Hannukah This Year , American Jews will celebrate

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Thanksgiving during Hannukah which starts today.

The coincidence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah is very unusual - it last happened in 1888. But in a way it's fitting, as American Jews have been embracing Thanksgiving for more than two centuries.

According to the most commonly cited calculation, not only has this not happened for 125 years, but it won't happen again for more than 70,000 years.

That is because the Jewish calendar is shifting in relation to the Gregorian calendar very, very slowly... at a rate of four days every 1,000 years.

It's thanks to a quirk of both calendars that 2013 has this curious new amalgam: Thanksgivukkah.

Perhaps the most common online discussion topic is food, and ideas for "mash-up" recipes that combine festive delicacies from both sides - from potato latkes with cranberry applesauce to rye pumpkin pie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25125042

i love latkes

[Warpy]

1. Only the dead would avoid a fresh latke

with either applesauce or sour cream. Thanksgivingukkah sounds good to me. When do we eat?