[Avodah] Is Turkey Kosher?

[Prof. Levine]

At 03:13 PM 11/17/2010, Micha wrote:
>Rav Dovid Lifshitz didn't eat turkey on any day, but he held it was kosher
>mei'iqar hadin. Of RDL's talmidim, only one was advised to share this
>chumerah -- and only if he didn't tell people. So, the story circulates
>without sheim omero. (In case you're wondering, no, not me.)

>This is much the same as RNKamenetzky reported about his father, R'
>Yaakov Kamenecki, "My father did not advocate that others abstain"
>(personal fax to RAZZivotofsky, as reported in the Journal of Halakhah
>and Contemporary Society).

The following is from http://tinyurl.com/24gj9xb

Generally the minhog in Ashkenaz was to eat turkey, (in the work 'Minhogei
Amsterdam' you can see turkey cited as one of the birds eaten). There
were very few families, (mostly in Russia and Lithuania) that did not
eat Turkey, but that definitely was not the common minhog.

The person who pointed me to this wrote, "According to R' Hamburger
[author of Sheirushei Minhag Ashkenaz], Turkey has a valid mesorah."

YL