Thanksgiving

Bibi's pardon request rocks Israeli politics, Thanksgiving reflections - podcast

Netanyahu’s pardon bid, Israel’s measles surge, Satmar visit, and Thanksgiving in Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Dispatch
NO NEED to stand – just lower yourself onto a burnt umber couch.

AMIT educational network hosts Thanksgiving event at Jerusalem's Inbal Hotel

An Easy Jet airline's Airbus A320-214 passenger aircraft, coming from Glasgow, lands at Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport, in Malaga, Spain, June 29, 2024.

Global airlines race to fix Airbus A320 glitch as recall disrupts travel worldwide

Alexander Rapaport, the executive director of Masbia, and Louis Solomon, the president of Congregation Shearith Israel, on November 27, 2025.

America’s oldest Jewish congregation launches a kosher food pantry on the Upper West Side


Letters from the Editor November 28, 2022: Reporting sexual abuse

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Nefesh B’Nefesh hosts over 700 olim at Thanksgiving dinners

Nefesh B'Nefesh held a series of events from Thursday through Shabbat all across the country.

 Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Co-Founder of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Bonnie Rosenbaum, Co-Director of The Michael Levin Base, Noya Govrin, Director of the FIDF, surrounded by lone soldier Olim attending the Thanksgiving dinner at the Nefesh B’Nefesh Aliyah campus.

Thanksgiving: Gratitude or gratification?

Sitting around a Thanksgiving table and admiring the trait of gratitude feels deeply religious and is fully consonant with our own value system.

 Thanksgiving: A time for gratitude

Home away from home: Thanksgiving in Dubai and Tel Aviv

In Dubai, at the American-inspired CMP Bar & Grill restaurant, over 100 people are expected during the two nights Thanksgiving will be celebrated.

 A buffet of traditional dishes is served for Thanksgiving 2021 at Kerem House in Tel Aviv

Thanksgiving: The origins, criticisms, Jewish views of the holiday - explainer

Thanksgiving is celebrated throughout the US, having many different customs and traditions – including for many American Jews. But why is it divisive?

 Happy Thanksgiving (illustrative).

Thanksgiving: Jewish community groups host Afghan, Ukrainian evacuees for meals

The event, which was sponsored by the Buffalo branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, was open to all new Ukrainian arrivals.

 Ukrainian evacuees celebrate a pre-Thanksgiving meal at the Ukrainian American Civic Center in Buffalo, New York.

Thanksgiving: Pilgrims' antisemitism inherited by Kanye, Kyrie - opinion

Known as Replacement Theology, this hostile belief arrived on the shores of the New World with the Puritans and cast a dark shadow over the first Thanksgiving.

 KANYE WEST attends the Vanity Fair party celebrating the Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, in February. West recently claimed, ‘I can’t be antisemitic because Black people are actually Jew.’

Largest US Kosher food bank to feed 135,000 people in need on Thanksgiving

While all the items in the food bank are Kosher, CEO of the Met Council David Greenfield emphasized that the organization supports Jews and non-Jews alike.

 The Queens precinct and the Met Council distribute food to those in need for Thanksgiving.

Could Thanksgiving have Jewish roots? - opinion

 THE KOSHER bird.

What are the Jewish roots of Thanksgiving? - opinion

For the leader of the Pilgrims, verses from the Hebrew Bible, cited in accordance with the practice of Jewish law – constitutes the original Thanksgiving

 ‘MY OWN Modern Orthodox community historically has maintained fidelity to our turkey feast, even among American expats like me.’