Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Food Drink Your Honey This Rosh Hashanah – Mead and Hard Cider Cocktails
From an Epicurean and symbolic perspective Rosh Hashanah is practically synonymous with honey. This year, in addition to dipping apples into honey, my family will be drinking it as well. Not in its viscous, sticky form, but as mead an alcoholic honey wine, which is a bit yeasty and light in flavor, like wheat beer…
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The Schmooze Chabad Offers Free High Holiday Services for Fashion Week
As many can attest, going to synagogue isn’t as easy as putting on a rumpled shirt and tie or throwing on the same dress as the previous week. For better or worse, what you wear to shul is often a fashion statement. And as the High Holidays roll in this September, perhaps no group acknowledges…
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News Holiday Recipes
Rosh Hashanah: Chickpea Cakes with Lime Honey Dipping Sauce Fesenjan (Chicken in Pomegranate Walnut Sauce) Green Rice Holiday Challah Honey Balls Mead and Hard Cider Cocktails Poached Apples and Pears in Orange Blossom Water Yid.Dish: Chili Peppers on [Rosh Hashana](https://forward-hcl50.orc.scoolaid.net/schmooze/320610/rosh-hashana/ “Rosh Hashana”)h Yid.Dish: Crema di Zucca (Pumpkin Soup) Yid.Dish: Delicata Squash Soup with Apple Croutons…
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Food Pork Company Does Rosh Hashanah
It’s not just Jews who will avoid discussing business next month on Rosh Hashanah – this year, the country’s biggest pork producer will be doing the same. Smithfield Foods Inc., the Virginia-based makers of more than 50 pork and turkey products, announced last week that it has rescheduled its quarterly conference call partly because of…
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Life Change Our Children Can Believe In
Last week, in an effort to woo my 9-year-old] daughter from the comfort of her bed, I offered to bring her clothes to her. Contrary to her assurances the night before, nothing had been laid out. So I began searching through the array of possibilities. Shirt after shirt came out of the drawer and each…
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News Recipe: Farmer Freed’s Super Easy Cake With Fruit On Top
Mmmmmmmmm Around this time of year, my kitchen is overflowing with bowls of local apples from my friend’s farms. On Rosh Hashana, Farmer Leon brought over a few honey crisps which as the name implies are crisp, delicious, and spicy sweet. I saved a few of these special gems for a break fast cake. While…
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News Yid.Dish: Who Invited Julia Child to Rosh Hashanah?
I did! I love to host the holidays. Nothing gives me more pleasure than planning, marketing, preparing, and entertaining for these special times, and I have established a tradition of going a little over the top for the occasion. I also loved the books Julie and Julia as well as My Life in France. Both…
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Life Avast Me Hearties It’s Rosh Hashanah
For reasons best known to the buccaneering community, September 19, 2009, also known as Rosh Hashanah, was declared International Talk Like A Pirate Day by the Talk Like a Pirate Webpage. They celebrated the Jewish New Year in a variety of ways, but with fewer apples, pomegranates or black-eyed peas than usually eaten by my…
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