Shalom, Quackers.
Six words came in from Cebu City, in the Philippines, along with a photo of one of our ducks: "I met my first Jewish friend." See it on the map.
New on the map
Forty sightings have gone up since the start of September, and a dozen of them line one long road. A duck turned up in the grass outside a Casey's in Pratt, Kansas at four in the morning. Others popped up at a fuel pump in Mohave County, Arizona, along Route 66 through Seligman, Flagstaff, and Albuquerque, and all the way east to West Terre Haute, Indiana.
A few more we loved:
Hakone, Japan. A tour guide caught a Quacker hiding ducks and asked why, and that's how the guide met their first two Jews. The guide took ducks home for the grandkids and summed it up: "Jews are nice and I like duck." The next day, someone else hopped off a bus in Hakone and found a blue duck sitting by a stone.
Orlando airport. Stuck in a two-hour maintenance delay, a finder set a duck on the window sill in front of the plane and left it there for whoever boarded the evening flight.
Parliament Hill, Ottawa. A duck at the Canadian Parliament.
A park in Ottawa. Kippah the Duck, out on the swings.
Louvre Abu Dhabi. A duck under that lace-metal roof, with the sea out front.
This month in Jewish joy
Sigd, Monday 9 November. Ethiopian Jews have long marked Sigd on the 29th of Cheshvan, fifty days after Yom Kippur. They gather to pray for a return to Jerusalem, then break the fast and celebrate. Since 2008 it's been a national holiday in Israel.
109 years ago: the Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917. Sixty-seven words from Britain's foreign secretary backed "a national home for the Jewish people."
Chanukah starts Friday night, 4 December. Eight nights. Eight ducks? We won't judge. The shop is open.
From our columns
Finding the Joy: The Souls They Made. On Lech Lecha, and the people Avram and Sarai brought with them out of Haran.
Spiritual Sparks: The MIT Mathematician Who Calculated Happiness, from Rabbi Ze'ev Smason.
The Shabbat Drop: 2 New Jewish Cookbooks You Need on Your Shelf, from Miranda Lapides: recipes inspired by WWII resilience, and joyful dishes for the holiday table.
New: your photo, ready to post
When we put your sighting on the map, the email that tells you now comes with two pictures made from your photo (a square one for your feed and a tall one for your story), plus a caption you can paste. Tag @kosherduckrevolution and we'll see it.
Posted a duck already and it's not on the map? Please pop it on the map at kosherduckrevolution.com/submit.
Ways to join in
Found one? Scan the tag, or go to kosherduckrevolution.com/submit.
Want to hide one? A duck is $18 at the shop: $3 is the duck and $15 is a tax-deductible gift to AIC.
Want your shul, school, or business on the tags? Start a chapter.
Mitzvahs that float,
Cheryl
Kosher Duck Revolution, an initiative of the Atlanta Israel Coalition