Thanksgiving

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How Judaism makes every day Thanksgiving Day

Prayer and action cultivate gratitude, writes a ritualist, musician, healer and teacher.

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How Thanksgiving helped Jews carve out a piece of the American story

Rabbi Yael Buechler recounts a 19th-century Turkey Day dustup in Philadelphia that showed Jews weren’t going to accept second-class citizenship.

Ideas

Thanksgiving was established during an American crisis. Then and now, Judaism teaches us to be grateful.

The medical, financial, social and emotional challenges of the pandemic have made this a hard time to focus on our blessings. Yet we must.

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Gearing up for Thanksgiving alone? Here’s a rabbi’s advice from a season of pandemic Jewish holidays.

Culture

For Jewish schools, Thanksgiving presents a new test of COVID rules and parent trust

Black Friday

Culture

Black Friday is now a thing in Israel

Culture

A Portuguese-Spanish Jewish Thanksgiving Service Going Back to 1789

Culture

The Yiddish Tale Behind the Thanksgiving Turkey

Serving up shalom at a post-election Thanksgiving

The Year Jesus Came to Thanksgiving. Sorry, Jews, etc.

Culture

The Year Jesus Came to Thanksgiving. (Sorry, Jews, et al.)

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