Thanksgiving - Is it good for the Jews?

Here is some historical tidbits that may help us Jews decide the issue of "Is Thanksgiving good for the Jews?"

Factoid 1:
Go Google "Sukkot and Thanksgiving". It's widely believed that the Puritans observed a form of Sukkot and Canadian Thanksgiving is actually in closer proximity to our Chag than its USA counterpart.

Factoid 2:
I recently saw a History Channel [or similar] documentary on TV re: T-Day as follows:

It seems that the Puritans had banned celebrating Xmas as a joyous holiday and insisted upon a solemn day instead

Well the wives were steaming! They wanted to "cook up" a real feast. What to do? They made their Xmas festival meal on Thanksgiving instead with all the trimmings. L'havdil - An early tashlumin.

So
Lefi factoid #1 Thanksgiving is Torah-based

Lefi Factoid #2 it is indeed a derivative of the Proverbial Hukkos haGoy"

For more on this controversy

See:

http://www.5tjt.com/news/PrintArticle.asp?Id=5295

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=42225

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