Do Jews Celebrate Thanksgiving?

Yah everybody celebrates Thanksgiving (a.k.a Turkey Day), it is not a sectarian holiday. The real question is how many people just eat a turkey versus actually giving thanks and remembering why the holiday exists in the first place.

Thanks giving is in fact blessing the British people and their helpers to create the USA. I can never understand this as your declaration of independance should be the day you should give thanksgiving that your american. Thangs giving cuts out the fact that you are a melting pot of nations with origins much further than Great Britain. American Jews obvously join in as they have become part of the melting pot. The other thing is all humans like parties, festivals and dancing. however we have a long way to go before we can dance with each other.

If you really think deeply on thanking then please thank for the right reason and if you have faith pray for the right reason. But don't ever feel jewish americans are not patriotic as many are in your miltary sevices for patriotic reasons, as they are american.

I am a brit but i have american patriot friends that are jewish. So please dont piss in their yard.

The headline made me chuckle. I imagine the text message was a joke. Let yourself rest at peace.

... Why wouldn't we?

Honestly, I hope this is a joke because I really can't concieve where that answer came from. Did I miss some all-important ritual on Thanksgiving when Jesus multitplied the gifts of the natives so there was enough to last all winter?

I could go on and on about how thanksgiving edits history and too many people gloss over the debilitating gift of smallpox and syphillis europeans brought to America and the equally deadly (although delayed) gift of tobacco they gave back (and as a natural-born citizen I often do just that) but I imagine those who moved here either voluntarily or as refugees, it serves as more of a symbol of the generosity and acceptance that we like to pretend is this nation's tradition. Or which should become tradition.

Do Jews celebrate thanksgiving? If we grew up here, then wouldn't we? If we've immigrated, why shouldn't we?

Do jews always answer a question with another question? Why not?

Most of us do, however I have some Orthodox friends that do not, insisting that the only real holidays are religious ones. While most of us reject this line of thought, there is a minority who accept it.

I guess the reason why your friend asked is because of the religious undertones of the holiday. While to many people the day means nothing more than eating turkey, there are still many to whom it is a profoundly meaningful spiritual day.

I grew up in a very conservative christian household and we always went to church on Thanksgiving Morning and as an adult i still do. The Bible is full of references of when the phrase "and God remembered" is used, but the problem with humans is that unlike God we tend to forget. Therefore it is good for the soul to take at least one day a year and dedicate it to remembering how good God has been to us over the past year. Especially on a difficult year such as this one. Before seeing the Macy's Day Parade and before watching football on tv, and before sitting down to dinner with the extended family, my nuclear family takes the time to thank the Creator on Thanksgiving Day. This is still the case for many Americans.

What you friend failed to realize by asking his question is that the spiritual undertones of the holiday are not sectarian by nature. There is nothing divisively sectarian about thanking God for His blessings. As I see it, a Jew, Christian, and Muslim could equally give thanks to the Lord on Thanksgiving Day without betraying their faith heritage.