November 28, 2013,
Events, Guru in a Bottle 
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The coincidence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah is very unusual – it last happened in 1888.
But in a way it’s fitting, as American Jews have been embracing Thanksgiving for more than two centuries.
By the time the first of eight candles in Jewish menorah were lit on Wednesday evening for the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, the country was largely closed down for Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday.
According to the most commonly cited calculation, not only has this not happened for 125 years, but it won’t happen again for more than 70,000 years!
That’s because the Jewish calendar is shifting in relation to the Gregorian calendar very, very slowly… at...
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