Sweet Potato Latkes

sweet potato latkes: Take a close look when you flip your calendar to the new month today. The Jewish holiday Hanukkah and the American Thanksgiving both fall on the same day Nov. 28, an occurrence so rare it wont happen again for 77,000 years, according to The Star. In the U.S., more than 1,000 people are expected to gather in Los Angeles to celebrate the first and likely only Thanksgivukkah Festival with light, liberty and latkes. On Nov. 29, which is actually Black Friday, sweet potato latkes will be served with cranberry sauce and gravy alongside pumpkin doughnuts instead of the traditional fried, jelly-filled ones known as sufganiyot. Jewish customs holds that fried foods should be eaten to commemorate the lamp oil that miraculously burned for eight days and You could call it Thanksgivukkah, but Thanks-A-Latke is better. That means Jewish families with American relatives will have a complicated holiday menu and a small window in which to complete their holiday shopping, especially since the traditional day of mega-sales, Black Friday, falls on the same weekend. Oy vey! (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.