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PHOTO: Historic Thanksgivukkah

(RNS) The second night of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving in a rare convergence this year. Many Jewish families ate turkey and then lit the menorah, a nine-branched candelabra.
PHOTO: Historic Thanksgivukkah
Quentin Wise lights a candle on the menorah for the second night of Hanukkah with his family in Leawood, Kan., on Nov. 28, 2013. RNS photo by Sally Morrow
Sally Morrow

 

(Leawood, Kan.) The second night of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving in a rare convergence this year. Many Jewish families ate turkey and then lit the menorah, a nine-branched candelabra.

READ:  “Thanksgiving and Hanukkah converge on ‘Thanksgivukkah’ for the first time since 1888.”


Quentin Wise lights a candle on the menorah for the second night of Hanukkah, also Thanksgiving, with his family in Leawood, Kan. on Thursday (Nov. 28). RNS photo by Sally Morrow

Quentin Wise lights a candle on the menorah for the second night of Hanukkah, also Thanksgiving, with his family in Leawood, Kan. on Thursday (Nov. 28). RNS photo by Sally Morrow

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