Thanksgivukkah: Why Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Overlap This Year

For the only time in the next 70,000 years, the first day of Hanukkah aligns with Thanksgiving. The coincidence has to do with quirks of the Jewish calendar, which is lunar.



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