Thanksgiving in Halachah

by Greg on November 27, 2008

There are two major halachic discussions surrounding the holiday of Thanksgiving:

  1. Is it permissible to celebrate Thanksgiving?
  2. Is turkey kosher?

That, and the cosmic mysteries that is the fact that ‘turkey’ in Hebrew is ‘הודו’.

As to the question of whether or not there were any Jews amongst the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock that first Thanksgiving…I don’t know about you, but this guy looks awfully conspicious:

The First Jewish Thanksgiving?

The First Jewish Thanksgiving?

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