Happy Thanksgivukkah! Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same day this year - which won't happen again for another 79,000 years
By Associated Press
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It's a turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah!An extremely rare convergence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah has created a frenzy of Talmudic proportions.
There's the number crunching: The last time it happened was 1888, or at least the last time since Thanksgiving was declared a federal holiday by President Lincoln, and the next time may have Jews lighting their candles from spaceships 79,043 years from now, by one calculation.
Rare: American Jews are commemorating this once
in an eon event with specially created cards posters. On November 28,
Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah coincide for the last time
for more than 70,000 years
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