Happy Thanksgivukkah! Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same day this year - which won't happen again for another 79,000 years

Maybe there is something significant to this date 11/28/2013?


Happy Thanksgivukkah! Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same day this year - which won't happen again for another 79,000 years

• Eight Days of Light, Liberty & Latkes
  
• For the first time since 1888, the first day of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving occur at the same time
  
• 9-year-old trademarks the 'Menurkey' -- a turkey-shaped menorah
  
• Rabbi says few countries could celebrate secular and religious traditions together
  
  

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 13:58 EST, 7 October 2013 | UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 8 October 2013

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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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449134/Happy-Thanksgivukkah-Thanksgiving-Channukah-fall-day.html

That's interesting.

Grant Wood, the artist of the original American Gothic painting is either turning over in his grave for all the parodies of his work, or he's laughing hysterically.Lets hope it's the latter.