Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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Recipes Amaze Your High Holiday Guests With This Beet Salad
Beet Salad with Poppy Seed + Chive Dressing SERVES 8 TO 10 I always like making unfussy vegetable dishes as part of more elaborate holiday menus. They add color and variety to your spread, and you can also rest assured your guests can fill their plates with something healthy. This beet salad is one of…
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Recipes A Rosh Hashanah Menu With A Modern Twist
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, a time of rebirth, of putting apples in everything, and of marking the passing of another year. There’s no better way to celebrate Rosh Hashanah than by rolling your sleeves up and getting into the kitchen to cook for everyone you love. Here are some recipes, new and…
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Recipes Your Perfect Rosh Hashanah Side Dish: Baked Saffron Salad
Inspired by a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe, this rice is great because it feeds a lot of people, it’s foolproof since you cook it in the oven (which helps rice cook so much more evenly than it does on the stove top, leaving the cook calm), and you can prepare it ahead and reheat it before…
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Recipes Celebrate The Jewish New Year With Celebration Chicken
SERVES 8 to 10 Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year. There are a lot of symbolic foods associated with the holiday, most of them sweet to help usher in a sweet new year. This chicken is a bit of a Rosh Hashanah riff on the famous Chicken Marbella from the The Silver Palate Cookbook…
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Food Your Rosh Hashanah Honey Might Cost More This Year Than Ever Before
Honey is one of the few foods in the world that can never go bad, but still qualifies as real food your grandmother would recognize. Since ancient times, honey has been a major part of many cultures, and Judaism is no exemption. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, apples and honey are traditionally eaten,…
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Forverts in English WATCH: How To Make Tzimmes To Celebrate The New Year
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Watch Rukhl Schaechter and Eve Jochnowitz prepare this holiday treat in a video in Yiddish with English subtitles.
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Fast Forward Israel Unveils Temporary Consulate In Ukraine For Crush Of Hasidic Visitors
(JTA) — Israel will open a temporary consulate in Uman during Rosh Hashanah, when at least 30,000 Jews perform a pilgrimage in that Ukrainian city. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem announced the move Tuesday, stating the diplomat working from the temporary consulate will “address urgent consular matters like stolen or lost travel documents…
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Community The Real Life Rabbi Who Almost Played One On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Until They Asked Him To Shave His Beard
Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning — and now Emmy-nominated — comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is coming back for a second season, and I couldn’t be happier. As a rabbi and pop culture vulture, you can imagine my delight when I was tapped to play “the rabbi” on the show. But alas, in a real life plot…
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