Comments on: Thanksgiving in Jerusalem

By: S

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:53:33 +0000

I agree with Martha. I’m living in Jerusalem while studying at HUJI and several of my friends and I were feeling homesick. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, not because of the food, but because it’s all about loved one’s coming together and being grateful for what we have. I am missing my loved one’s this year, and decided to make the most of it with the friends that I have here. We bought a turkey from Mahane Yehuda, made all the fixin’s and got to share this great holiday with several Israeli and European friends here.

Martha, I had a great time. I hope that your daughter found some friends to celebrate with, be it cooking at home, going out, or simply relaxing. Happy Holidays!

By: martha

martha — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:08 +0000

In America, Thanksgiving is not all about food consumption, but mostly about family, friends, love, conversation, and gratitiude for life’s blessings. I hope my daughter in jerusalem gets to be thankful with friends this Thanksgiving.

By: Judah HaKohain

Judah HaKohain — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:02:59 +0000

Shailah: Do you need to keep two days of Thanksgiving in Israel?

By: encino yeled

encino yeled — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:42:03 +0000

My apologies. Next time I diss someone I’ll know who they’re rolling with beforehand…

By: Simoneeeee

Simoneeeee — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:00:48 +0000

CK, you rock!

By: Daphna

Daphna — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:21:31 +0000

Am off to my friend’s annual Thanksgiving Shabbat where we will feast on turkey, all the fixin’s and my enormous pumpkin bread. Forget about that 1.4 ratio-probably more like 2.

By: ck

ck — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:10:53 +0000

encino? Yoni was kind enough to ham it up for the camera in order to illustrate my point about Thanksgiving. We shouldn’t repay his kindness with name calling. I should also tell you that Yoni is an awesome specimen of both manliness and cool and he is married to one of Jerusalem’s foremost hotties, the lovely and gracious Simone. Who you sleepin with tonight?

By: encino yeled

encino yeled — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:52:46 +0000

I’m all for preserving bits of culture, especially in a new country. But this guy looks like such a tool. Couldn’t get a better picture ck?

I’d actually believe it if ya told me that his name was Norman. he just looks like a Norm, Normie, Norman…Whatever you wanna call him.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:45:11 +0000

Thanksgiving is for crackers.

You think there were any Jews with that bunch of honkies at Plymouth Rock? You think they used kosher turkeys and Badatz pumpkin pie filling? You think there was any place for the Jew man at a table full of ornery Puritans?

Naw, man. Naw.

Damn, brother. Free yo mind, and yo holiday table will follow. Let whitey have Thanksgiving. That ain’t our culture. One love!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:04:04 +0000

Oy, there are just so many things wrong with that photo. And CK, if Thanksgiving involved couscous and seviche, I think you’ld be a bit less critical of the food consumption, eh? Happy Turkey day Weekend

By: esther

esther — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:00:23 +0000

Oh, I get it. I’m not proud of it, but I get it.

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:33:58 +0000

very authentic. we actually say, Next Year in DC.