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I recall being at an Agudah Convention many years ago and being served turkey on Thanksgiving Day!</div>
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https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/6105</a></div>
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Biur HaGr”a (Yoreh Deah 178: end 7) and Gilyon Maharsha (ad loc. 1). The Gr”a is bothered by the fact that the sugya in Sanhedrin seems to imply differently than the views of the Maharik, Ran, and later, the Rema, that a Chok Goyim, even one that is not a Chok
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On the other hand, other contemporary authorities disagree. Rav Yitzchok Hutner<a href="https://ohr.edu/6105#_edn16" title="">[16]</a> is quoted as maintaining that the establishment of Thanksgiving as an annual holiday that is based on the Christian calendar
is, at the very least, closely associated with <em>Avodah Zarah</em> and therefore prohibited. He explains that its annual observance classifies it as a ‘holiday’ and celebrating Gentile holidays is obviously not permitted. It is well known that Rav Avigdor
Miller was a strong proponent of this view as well, as Thanksgiving’s origins belay that it was actually established as a religious holiday.</div>
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See the above URL for much more.</div>
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