Question: I’ve been celebrating Thanksgiving with my family, but have been told some poskim have reservations about it.

The American Jewish community needs a new Thanksgiving story — one rooted not in fear, but in clarity. Gratitude is deeply ...

Many Americans are rejecting the complexity of Jewish identity, but we are a people who struggle, build families, endure ...

A plan broached by then US Sec. of State Ickles on Thanksgiving in 1938 offered a chance at life for Europe’s Jews by ...

The spiritual link between Jewish Exodus story and American founding shaped the nation's moral foundation, with gratitude ...

On 11/27/24, erev Thanksgiving 2024, I wondered whether Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and the Rov, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, were ...

A longstanding annual event in Niles Township brought together people from several religions just before Thanksgiving Day, ...

Thanksgiving is very Jewish. A festive meal where we proclaim thanks for the blessings we have? That’s called Shabbat. Jews know Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday we essentially celebrate every week ...

Thanksgiving has no liturgy and no prescribed theology. That is its gift. For Jews, it is one of the few American holidays that feels not only permissible but genuinely resonant. Like Independence Day ...

Ancient Jews held large communal meals, inviting friends, relatives and perhaps even strangers to fulfill the thank offering.

We can tell the Thanksgiving story in ways that reconcile its origins in generosity and racial violence, writes a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

The emphasis on the Pilgrims’ feast narrowed conceptions of who belongs in America, excluding groups like Native Americans, ...