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“Thanksgivukkah:” When the leftovers from a single meal lasted for eight miraculous days.
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For the week of Thanksgivukkah, Applebee’s will be changing it’s name to Maccabee’s.
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This year Thanksgiving falls on the first day of Hanukkah prompting thousands of turkeys to put on yarmulkes and say “Haven’t we been through enough?”
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Thanksgiving and Hanukkah overlap this year, yet even together, Christmas kicks both their butts.
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And of course we'll have the traditional Jewish prayer to start the meal: (performer sings this to the traditional melody) Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, hamotzi lechem cranberry sauce. A-a-men.
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It’s going to be interesting celebrating Thanksgiving and Hanukkah on the same night since Thanksgiving reminds of a time when two different cultures were able to put aside their differences and come together as one, and Hanukkah celebrates efficient oil use.
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“Thanksgivukkah:” The day we celebrate the miracle of the turkey that lasted for eight days.
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“Thanksgivukkah:” The day all the turkeys say: “chobble, chobble.”
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“Thanksgivukkah:” Because six million turkeys can’t be wrong.
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Calling it Thanksgivukkah is so offensive to my people. We prefer: Chanuksgiving. The day we give thanks for Jewish-Canadians.
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This Thanksgivukkah my mom listed all the things she was thankful for. Her son the juggler? Not one of those things.
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This year Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlap, prompting thousands of turkeys to say “Never again!”
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My family will be celebrating both Hanukkah and Thanksgiving tonight. We’ll be combining the traditional turkey, gravy, and stuffing with the even more traditional latkes, candles, and guilt.
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Tonight, Jews all over America will light the first candle of Thanksgivukkah to celebrate the fact that the Puritans hated the Indians even more than they hated us.
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This is the first time in almost a hundred years that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah overlap. It’s a pity, because if those early Pilgrims had a few of us Jews with them, they would have gotten New York for just $18 in beads. [TAG] Even back then you people paid retail.
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(Animated logo for Thanksgivukkah: Two tri-cornered Pigrim hats flying together to form a six-pointed Star of David.)
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Hanukkah sucks. You just can’t bluff in dreidel.
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I don’t know why we don’t do Thanksgiving and Hanukkah together every year? Turkeys and Jews have so much in common: male pattern baldness, payis, a healthy fear of ovens …