Ma Laasot? “So what can you do?”, as the Hebrew translates. What can we do in the midst of a barrage of bad news from Ukraine to Jewish settler violence to the shootings of members of the LGBTQ community, students and, now shoppers at a Walmart in Virginia?
Read MoreMost Americans revere Thanksgiving as a time to be with loved ones, a final harvest festival that connects most Americans in a spirit of common national identity. To have a day that brings Americans together in a time when we are so divided seems to be a really good thing. Sadly, and tragically, Thanksgiving is not celebrated by most Native peoples in the United States. While the Pilgrims and the local Wampanoag people celebrated in Massachusetts in 1621, exactly 400 years ago, this was for many the beginning of a painful history for indigenous peoples.
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