If your holiday cards are always marked with the joyful inscription “Happy Chanukah—I hope I spelled that right,” maybe it’s time to find a new way to celebrate the season. Thanks to a line of cards distributed by Hoboken greeting-card publisher NobleWorks, your Chrismukkah will always be merry and bright.
A festive amalgam of the two holidays, Chrismukkah is “gleefully theologically superficial, ignoring any religious meaning, and focusing on the fun, secular parts of the holidays,” says Chrismukkah card creator Ron Gompertz. For NobleWorks, “Sending Chrismukkah cards is a safe way for non-Jewish people to acknowledge their Jewish friends or for Jewish people to send out cards to their non-Jewish friends.”
The images include a matzo-ball snowman floating in a bowl of chicken soup, a candy cane–filled menorah, and a Christmas tree decorated with dreidels and topped with a Star of David. “This is our first year selling them, and the response has been fantastic,” says NobleWorks president Ron Kanfi. Chrismukkah converts can find the cards at www.chrismukkah.com.