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Avast Me Hearties It’s Rosh Hashanah

By Dan Friedman September 23, 2009

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 family.

So far there have been no announcements vis-a-vis September 28 (aka Yom Kippur), from either the Society for Acting Like a Gorilla or the Internet Consortium for Uncontrollable Mouth-Foaming. There are, though, still six full repenting days until the gates of Neilah close.

Each to their minhag I guess. Shiver me timbers and a shana tova.

Dan Friedman is the former executive editor and whisky correspondent of the Forward, and is the author of a book about Tears for Fears, the ’80s emo rock band.

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