Thanksgiving is not only a Christian holiday. Why are you kicking us Jews out?
*LIKE*
See post #49.
Thanksgiving is an AMERICAN holiday.
Words said over a dead bird don’t make any difference to anybody but those who think the words are magical.
I don’t think their words have any magic in them.
Maybe the next year, 1599, Thanksgiving was once more celebrated in the United States at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Notice ~ those ol'boys were ALL Catholics (at least nominally although I suspect most of the guys at Bar Harbor may well have been French Protestants.)
Then, Virginia ~ and we swing back to the Catholic pole here since at that time in those days (1609 or thereabouts) the folks who adhered to the Church of England could have sat down in a Catholic church and followed the order of worship perfectly.
Then, next one up was Plymouth ~ once more a Protestant service. All the same the folks at Santa Fe didn't stop celebrating it, nor did the guys at Jamestown, and the guys in Nova Scota (they moved there from Bar Harbor) didn't give it up ~ so even today we have foreigners, in Canada, doing Thanksgiving!
For a lot of folks it's real easy to figure out when their family members first began celebrating Thanksgiving ~ friend of mine's wife's family were among Schindler's Jews ~ they could tell you down to the minute eh! But there are others for whom it's a many generation sort of thing and actually wanders off into the unwritten past of the United States.
Those FOUR Thanksgiving I mentioned above had write-ups at the time. They told you who was there, when it was held, what was served and how long it took.
Decades passed where the last Thanksgiving was the only news, but it was news, and it's still news.
>>Thanksgiving is not only a Christian holiday. Why are you kicking us Jews out?<<
I’ve always thought it was an American Holiday.
Back when I was in high school, my visiting grandmother called our relatives in Italy to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving...and couldn’t understand why they were all at work or doing their usual sloughing off....
And to think she grew up there....
Man, I hope senility isn’t hereditary :-)
“Thanksgiving is not only a Christian holiday. Why are you kicking us Jews out?”
Because he’s afraid y’all will want to celebrate Thanksgiving like the Eastern Orthodox. We drink way too much for Protestant sensibilities. Every celebration we have the local Jews show up. Granted, they aren’t the most strict (they eat our food, although they skip the pork), but they sure like to drink our vodka.
Of course we’ve been known to show up at quite a few Jewish events . . . not for the vodka, though. That would be just wrong.