thanksgiving image- Poconos Tourism |Give thanks with the Dock on Wallenpaupack! Pick up your Thanksgiving To Go and enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal from the comfort of your own home. Takeout orders accepted through November 21. Pickup on November 23rd between 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. View Thanksgiving To Go menu!|Kalahari Resorts & Conventions is pulling out all the stops to present a holiday buffet in the Kilimanjaro Ballroom. Take your pick from turkey, prime rib, mashed potatoes, candied yams, a dessert station and much more. Turn your Thanksgiving into a weekend family vacation, and enjoy some splash time in one of the country’s largest indoor waterparks .| Celebrate two holidays in one weekend at Skytop Lodge . Savor a spectacular Thanksgiving buffet in the elegant Windsor Dining Room or order a la carte Thanksgiving specials at the Lakeview Bar. |Whether you’re seeking a retreat from the everyday or a family adventure, Split Rock Resort is an experience you’ll look forward to year after year. Split Rock Resort is a full-service, four-season resort featuring a variety of suites plus great restaurants. Other amenities include an indoor waterpark, arcade, bowling alley, spa, hair salon, movie theater, lake and beach, kayaks, canoes, miniature golf, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis, basketball and more. Split Rock is a perfect choice for a family-friendly getaway!|Enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving Buffet at the Waterfront at Silver Birches. Reservations required.|Celebrate Thanksgiving Day at the historic Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort. The culinary team has prepared savory menu selections for a traditional Thanksgiving feast with family. Visit website for more information or book your reservations online. A credit card is required to hold reservation. There is a 48-hour cancellation policy. No coupons, certificates or discounts can be used for holiday buffets.
(Chabad.Org) The vast majority of the Jewish community considers the turkey a kosher bird. As such, if it has been slaughtered by a qualified shochet and properly salted, turkey is a perfectly kosher food. Indeed, a visit to a kosher deli will reveal a wide array of kosher turkey products: smoked turkey, turkey pastrami, and even turkey hot dogs.
When peeking under the hood, however, one discovers that things are not quite so simple. The Torah gives us a list of 24 non-kosher birds,1 leaving us to understand that all other birds are kosher. Now, it is often difficult (or impossible) for us to know which birds the Torah is referring to. As such, common practice is to consume only the species for which there has been an ongoing tradition, telling us that Jews have always considered that bird to be kosher.
Turkey is a new-world bird, introduced to Europe in the 16th century. So how can there possibly be an ongoing tradition regarding its kosher status? Many halachic authorities explain that since a kosher species cannot mate with non-kosher species, the fact that a suspect species can interbreed with a known kosher species confirms the kosher status of the unknown species.2 Since turkeys can mate with certain birds known to be kosher, we can be sure that turkeys are also kosher.
It should be noted that due to the ambiguity surrounding turkey, some individuals (notably, descendants of the Sheloh, Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz,) avoid eating it. This is not, however, a mainstream practice.
