Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Elder of Ziyon
It's a turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah!(I refuse to spell it with two "k"s.)
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.
There's the commerce: A 9-year-old New York boy invented the "Menurkey" and raised more than $48,000 on Kickstarter for his already trademarked, Turkey-shaped menorah. Woodstock-inspired T-shirts have a turkey perched on the neck of a guitar and implore "8 Days of Light, Liberty & Latkes." The creators nabbed the trademark to "Thanksgivukkah."
That article included an image from a funny poster by ModernTribe.com:
So before someone else came up with this similar idea, I decided to do a little Photoshopping myself, although it is more subtle:
