It’s Rosh Hashanah! Send this holiday card to the mishpokhe you can’t hug
Coronavirus means you can’t hug friends and family this High Holiday season, so click here to connect with them and revive a beloved custom at the same time. Image by Forward Montage
By Helen Chernikoff September 12, 2020
For more than 500 years, Jews have been sending each other Rosh Hashanah greetings to feel connected, despite the long distances that separated them.
Now that coronavirus has made it difficult, again, to gather in person, the Forward invites you to join us in reviving the tradition of sending and receiving these holiday cards — called shone-toyves in Yiddish.
We hope you like these two cards — send either one, or both. Click here for the story behind the custom, and behind these cards in particular.
There’s lots of different ways you can send them to friends and family.
To send a printable version to friends and family download the PDF here. and here
To attach the image to an email, or to post on social media right click the images below and select “save image as.”
Download our Rosh Hashanah card! Image by forward
Download our Rosh Hashanah card! Image by forward
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