For Conservative Jews, among whom we include ourselves, who preserve the balance between tradition and today, let us be grateful.
For Reform Jews, whose devotion to social justice keeps alive the prophetic call and who are not afraid to explore new ways to reach out to God and each other, let us be grateful.For Modern Orthodox Jews, Who live a life of commitment to Torah and Halacha in contemporary society, showing us a path of possibilities, let us be grateful.
For the Chassidim, who preserve an intensity of spirit and certainty, denying material comfort in the pursuit of the goal of a world united under God, let us give thanks.
For Israeli Jews, gathered from the four corners of the earth and led upright to our homeland, who maintain a place of belonging for us all, let us be grateful.
For Zionists of every land, whose devotion to our people for these 100 years has brought into being a miracle that our ancestors only imagined, let us be grateful.
For the Cultural Jews who, by their commitments, preserve the joys of Yiddish, literature of Hebrew and the music, poetry humor and art of a thousand Jewish communities, let us be grateful.
For the gastronomic Jews, who help us feed our bodies as well as our souls with chicken soup and kasha, falafel and shwarma, kugel and baklava and a really not lean Hot Pastrami sandwich – let us be grateful.
For the philanthropic Jews, who nurture the world with their generosity as they fund day schools and universities, synagogues and hospitals, free loan societies and cultural arts – let us be grateful.
For Jews who although married to non-Jews still struggle to create a Jewish home, a link across generations and a link to others who preserve our tradition let us give thanks.
For Jews who marry non-Jews but struggle to define a sense of Jewishness, which honors both their heritage and their love, let us give thanks. To their non- Jewish spouses who shlep the kids to Jewish Day school and Hebrew schools and who help raise a next generation of Jews let us give thanks.
For every one of us, single or married, old or young, religious or secular, enthusiastic or ambivalent, Jewish by birth, by choice, by soul or by sympathy, for the essential contribution we each bring which make our people whole and which testifies to the many reflections of god’s image in which we were created we give thanks.
-Rabbi Jack Moline
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