With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away from today, Americans prepare for this annual holiday, while many Jewish people prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime event: “Thanksgivukkah.”

Thanksgivukkah, which falls on Nov. 28, the first day of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, this year, celebrates the overlap of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, according to the Boston Globe. It is an event that hasn’t happened since 1888 and won’t happen for almost another 80,000 years, To commemorate this rare occurrence, items and foods such as the Menurkey, a turkey-shaped menorah, and latke-stuffed turkeys have appeared. People have even written songs, such as “The Ballad of Thanksgivukkah.”

Madeline “Maddie” Roger, Jewish person and sophomore, said this year, her family plans to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, but still merge together aspects of both holidays.

“We’ll probably get our little gifts for Hanukkah, and then we’re going to go eat a big (traditional American Thanksgiving) meal,” she said. “We’re going to go visit family, and we’re probably going to go eat with them.”

Similarly, Rachel Sendrow, Jewish person and junior, said she plans to combine traditions of both as well.

“Probably what we’re going to do is just make a Thanksgiving dinner,” Sendrow said. “We’ll definitely still light the menorah. We probably will just wait to do the Hanukkah food until after Thanksgiving ends, since Thanksgiving’s only one day and Hanukkah’s eight days.”

Although Hanukkah and Thanksgiving are celebrated for very different purposes, many people do not find a problem with combining the two.

“I think it really shows that we can really tolerate different religions and we can be accepting of that,” Roger said.

For many reasons, including the fact that Hanukkah is not a major holiday, Mr. Sendrow said he supports this overlap as well.

“(A friend of mine) says that just as Christians have a trinity, Americans have a trinity and it’s on our money, and the trinity is liberty, in God we trust and e pluribus Unum, which is Latin for ‘from many one,’” he said. “To me, the combining of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving is a real life example of ‘from many one.’”

Mr. Sendrow said he hopes everyone can realize that this occurrence doesn’t just affect Jewish people and can realize its true meaning.

“The beauty of America is that there are so many possibilities, so many potential overlaps between our American identities and our religious or ethnic, nationalist, or whatever identities, and no one can force us to separate one from the other,” Mr. Sendrow said. “I think that’s the real beauty of these two days coinciding.”