It's unusual to be able to say this on the same day, but to all readers of this website: Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas!
For anyone unfamiliar, Hanukkah (and all other Jewish holidays) occurs on different dates on the secular calendar each year because the Jewish calendar follows the 354-day lunar cycle. Rarely, if ever, does a Jewish holiday fall on the same secular date two years in a row, and this is the first year in decades that the first night of Hanukkah has exactly coincided with Christmas. Of course, Christmas ends tonight while Hanukkah has seven more days to go, but for today the holidays entirely coincide.
On that note, I also want to express my diagreement with the mixed term "Chrismukkah" (or "Chrismukwanzakuh") The term, popularized by the intermarried Jewish-Christian household in the TV show "The O.C." may sound all-inclusive, but in reality we're talking about two different holidays from two different religions, so I prefer to call them by what they actually are.
So on that note, once again, Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
-TheSolidSurfer.com
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