Thanksgiving Answer

11/22/2021

C. In 1868, Pennsylvania Governor John W. Geary issued a proclamation calling on Pennsylvania citizens to celebrate Thanksgiving by praising “the name of God and magnify Him with thanksgiving,” and to pray that “our paths through life may be directed by the example and instructions of the Redeemer, who died that we might enjoy the blessings which temporarily flow therefrom.” All seven of Philadelphia’s rabbis criticized the governor for his exclusion of Israelites, which they said cast “reflections upon thousands, who hold a different creed from that which he avows.”

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