This good natured recruiter par excellence has magically transformed the team’s record from a flimsy 3-2 to a respectable 8-3 and led them to bowl game eligibility. There is a happy fella who is liked by the players, coaches, alumni and fans. The USC football team could have a long hard winter as the Trojans and Athletic Director Pat Haden ponder the various head coach possibilities for 2014. * Most likely, by the time you read this, many others will have weighed in with the same thoughts. Pretty soon school kids will think Thanksgiving started when the Wampanoag’s sat down with the Maccabees and the yams lasted for eight nights.”

The quirk of Thanksgivukkah is that the Hebrew calendar, which follows the sun and the moon, and the Gregorian calendar, where Thanksgiving sits on the fourth Thursday of November, have aligned such that the two holidays are on the same day for the first time since 1888 - 25 years after President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a holiday. Hanukkah and Thanksgiving align not just in time but thematically. “Cooks have created recipes for everything from pumpkin latkes (Hanukkah’s signature potato pancake) to turkey brined in Manischewitz (the syrupy kosher wine Americans love to make fun of but drink anyway). Food neuroses may become endemic across the nation. The chefs in the house won’t know whether to roast a turkey or slice a brisket. Earlier this year, when the rarity of the synergy began to dawn on the American Jewish households, they began concocting ‘Thanksgivukkah’ mash-ups.” 28 is Thanksgiving and the first full day of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, which begins at sundown the previous night. According to the Religious News Service (RNS) it “last happened in 1888 and, according to one calculation, won’t happen again for another 77,798 years: the convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.

* There will be chaos in the kitchens on Thursday November 28, 2013.

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