More and more Jews are in interfaith marriages, which means more and more families are celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah across the U.S. The holiday season will be especially festive for those families this year with the two holidays overlapping. We’ll be lighting our first Hanukkah candle on Christmas Day, the evening of Dec. 25. It will be, as Seth Cohen in “The O.C.” called it, a very merry Chrismukkah indeed.
Whether you’re part of an interfaith family, or have friends or family raising their kids in one, here are some great gifts for those of us who celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas — or maybe just need some new decor for our Hanukkah bush.
Ornaments
These two snowmen are such cute friends! One celebrates Hanukkah, the other Christmas, and they both wish you happy holidays with this super sweet ornament.
The Hanukkah gingerbread art of your dreams! This ornament glows white and blue inside which makes it extra festive.
The perfect gift ornament for the nice Jewish girl in your life.
An ornament that celebrates the important Jewish tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Day, perfect to stare at with a Chinese food container in your hand.
I'm not a fan of the "oy to the world" pun in my regular Hanukkah merch but it is perfect on this elegantly painted ornament.
Can you be an interfaith American Jewish home without a bagel ornament on your Christmas tree?
This beautiful beaded ornament pays tribute to the connection of Hanukkah with the lunar cycle.
If you're dreaming of the ocean this holiday season, these ornaments will help it feel a little closer.
Jewish Ornament Fairy
You can customize this darling Jewish "fairy" with your kid's or family name or the year, but honestly, she's adorable just as she is.
A wonderfully classy dreidel ornament made out of porcelain from designer Jonathan Adler.
Clothing
This Christmas/Hanukkah split Hawaiian shirt is surprisingly really eye-pleasing and perfect for those celebrating both holidays in warmer climates.
I've never seen anyone as happy in a sweater as the model wearing this Chrismukkah sweater, which features a Jewish star fashioned into a Christmas tree.
Two holidays are, indeed, better than one, as this sweatshirt which features all the Hanukkah and Christmas staples, including some very delicious looking sufganiyot, surmises.
Novelty gifts
Hanukkah Santa
This Santa with a tallit and a menorah is frankly hilarious to me and you may know someone who will find laughter and joy in him, too.
Hanukkah Nutcracker
The traditional Christmas nutcracker gets a Hanukkah twist here. Does it feel weird that he's holding a bag of gelt? Maybe, but I still love him.
The Yamaclaus, made famous by Adam Brody's Seth Cohen in "The O.C." currently known as Hot Rabbi Noah Roklov in "Nobody Wants This," is a mix between a kippah and a Santa Claus hat that's sure to elicit lots of fun reactions in all your interfaith celebrations. It comes in both the classic Santa hat red and in a very nice velvety blue.
Stockings
An investment for all your Christmukkah celebrations, present and future, this giant bedazzled dreidel stocking sure has room for a lot of fun stocking stuffers, maybe even for a matching Lele Sadoughi head bow.
A classic needlepoint stocking that features a dreidel with all four letters in the right order on the dreidel's surface, a surprisingly hard to accomplish feat in Hanukkah products made by non-Jews. These stockings are hand crafted through fair trade in Haiti.
These stockings feature a menorah with a Santa hat on them in a cute mingling of seasonal interfaith objects. You can get a custom name, in either English or Hebrew, embroidered on them as well.
Books
Sadie celebrates both Hanukkah and Christmas and feels like a lucky duck indeed in this book that shows a family that mixes both holiday traditions in really fun and inventive ways.
A non-Jewish grandmother pulls through for her granddaughter when she accidentally leaves her menorah behind on her way to her family's holiday celebration in Italy.
Sophie explains her family's Christmas and Hanukkah traditions to her friend Tommy, who only celebrates Christmas.
