How Will You Celebrate Your Eight Crazy Nights?

By Jessica Ford

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: November 28, 2013

How Will You Celebrate Your Eight Crazy Nights?

It only happens once every 70,000 years, so we think it might be worth celebrating. This year, the start of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving are on the same day. Some folks are calling it Thanksgivukkah. And that's cool, sort of. At Heifer, we are thinking more along the lines of Thanks-Give-A-Cow. We like that better.

Long-time Heifer International supporter Ed Asner proclaims, “In celebration of the day of "Thanks-Give-A-Cow" this year, remember not to have a cow but rather give a cow! It is a moo-velous idea!”

Thanks, Ed! See more about what he and Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein have to say here

Seriously though, the goal of Heifer at Hanukkah is to help children and families learn how the gift of giving is more than charity, it is providing self-reliance—that’s the highest level of tzedekah. And gifts of animals in Heifer's gift catalog this year reflect the Jewish teachings of tikkun olam or to "repair the world."

That sounds beautiful to us.

So from "L’dor v'dor" or "from generation to generation," Heifer International has been Passing on the Gift® at Hanukkah. On this day and this remarkable coincidence when Thanksgiving and Hanukkah coincide, we are happy to continue this tradition. So for Thanks-Give-A-Cow day, we hope you will join us.

Join Heifer at Hanukkah and the Thanks-Give-A-Cow celebration now.