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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Thanksgiving

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate on Sixth Avenue during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
November 28, 2024, 10:45 pm
Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; 21 arrested
NYPD steps in as demonstrators jump over barriers, sit on parade route with a banner reading ‘Don’t celebrate genocide,’ chant ‘Free, free Palestine’
By AP
File: The campus of the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
November 26, 2023, 11:20 pm
Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont in possible hate crime, US authorities say
Shooter, a white man with a handgun who fired ‘without speaking,’ fled the scene; two of the victims were wearing black-and-white Palestinian keffiyehs
By Jacob Magid
The Weinstein and Dahan families, plus guests, at a Thanksgiving dinner event in Tel Aviv, on November 22, 2023. (courtesy)
November 23, 2023, 4:36 pm
In Tel Aviv, displaced families bring Israeli flavor to American-style Thanksgiving
Local Orthodox Union-affiliated group matches Gaza-area evacuee families with English-speaking immigrants for the festival of gratitude. ToI joined the Weinsteins and Dahans
By Gavriel Fiske
Ukrainian evacuees celebrate a pre-Thanksgiving meal at the Ukrainian American Civic Center in Buffalo, New York. (Courtesy of Jewish Federations of North America via JTA)
November 24, 2022, 3:01 am
US Jewish community groups host Afghan, Ukrainian evacuees for Thanksgiving meals
From New York to California, volunteers introduce refugees to American holiday for the first time, keeping with longstanding Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger
By Jackie Hajdenberg
US President Joe Biden, right, pardons Chocolate, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, as he is joined by the 2022 National Turkey Federation Chairman Ronnie Parker and Alexa Starnes, daughter of the owner of Circle S Ranch, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, November 21, 2022. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images/AFP )
November 22, 2022, 9:04 am
Biden pardons turkeys ‘Chocolate’ and ‘Chip’ for Thanksgiving
US president quips that ‘no ballot stuffing’ was involved in sparing birds from ending up as the main course at annual celebratory dinner later this week
By AFP
Students and parents from Beit Rabban Day School in Manhattan march to express their gratitude to neighborhood workers on the Upper West Side on the eve of Thanksgiving, on November 24, 2021. (Laura Kaler via JTA)
November 30, 2021, 10:00 pm
NYC Jewish day school’s Thanksgiving parade goes viral on TikTok
Onlooker mistakes students at Manhattan’s Beit Rabban Day School chanting ‘Thank you’ to city workers for a protest, in video garnering more than 480,000 views, 105K likes
By julia GERGELY
PROMOTED CONTENT
November 24, 2021, 1:16 pm
Love, Thoughts and Thanksgiving
In this special episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer reflects on the Jewish significance of Thanksgiving
Chef Snir Eng-Sela's love for everything Thanksgiving-related includes carving pumpkins for his restaurant. (Courtesy: Snir Eng-Sela)
November 19, 2021, 2:01 pm
Podcast: A Sabra Thanksgiving, with turkey, cranberries and even pumpkin spice
An Israeli chef, Tel Aviv mom and Anglo immigrant talk about how and why they celebrate this most American of holidays
By ToI Staff
Hospital staff members enter an elevator with the body of a COVID-19 victim on a gurney at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, July 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
December 3, 2020, 7:21 pm
US coronavirus deaths set record at over 3,100 in a single day 
In 24 hours, 100,000 Americans are hospitalized, 200,000 new cases found; coming months to be ‘most difficult time in public health history of this nation,’ says CDC director
By ToI Staff
'Embarkation of the Pilgrims,' by Robert Walter Weir, circa 1857. (Public domain/ Brooklyn Museum online collection)
November 26, 2020, 1:39 am
Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed
William Bradford’s ‘Of Plymouth Plantation’ features about 1,000 words in the biblical tongue. But although many early Protestants studied Hebrew, they were hardly philo-Semitic
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Students participate in outdoor activities at the Denver Jewish Day School, 2020. (Courtesy of Denver Jewish Day School/ via JTA)
November 24, 2020, 11:52 pm
For US Jewish schools, Thanksgiving tests adherence to COVID rules, parent trust
As coronavirus cases again spike across the United States, Jewish institutes ask parents to avoid celebrations or host outside — or risk the closures faced by the general public
By Shira Hanau
Times of Israel's Culture and Lifestyle editor Jessica Steinberg joins the ToI Podcast to speak about Thanksgiving in Israel. (Daniel Laufer)
November 11, 2020, 4:40 pm
LISTEN: Talking turkey with Jerusalem’s ‘Ms. Thanksgiving’
ToI’s Culture editor and children’s book author Jessica Steinberg speaks about baking pumpkin pies for breast cancer org Sharsheret and celebrating in Israel
By ToI Staff
A Thanksgiving turkey surrounded by side dishes. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead, FIle)
November 10, 2020, 7:01 pm
With Thanksgiving coming, experts say stuff the turkey but not your home
Medical professionals warn close-quarter indoor gatherings are a source for infections and recommend small well-ventilated family meals or outdoor activities this year
By Carla K. Johnson
Illustrative: A man passes a Facebook screen at the Gamescom gathering in Cologne, Germany, August 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
November 29, 2019, 2:11 am
Facebook, Instagram back online after Thanksgiving outage
Social media giant blames ‘an issue in one of our central software systems’ for shutting down platform and all connected apps
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field, on November 28, 2019, in Afghanistan. (Olivier Douliery / AFP)
November 28, 2019, 10:52 pm
Trump makes unannounced Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan, visits US troops
US president serves turkey to soldiers in a cafeteria, delivers remarks in a hangar, meets Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
By AFP
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