This is the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
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Recipes Molly’s Chocolate Tahini Cake
Not many things in life are better than a rich, moist chocolate cake covered in buttercream and doled out with birthday songs and birthday wishes. But as my old timpani teacher used to say, “If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway.” Chocolate cake, meet tahini. Chocolate cake and tahini go together fantastically, but not like…
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Opinion I Want a High Holiday Sermon On the Biggest Prison Strike in U.S. History
As you read this, a massive organized movement is making history across the U.S. — and you probably haven’t heard about it. That movement is the largest prison strike in the nation’s history. Inmates in at least 40 prisons across 24 states have organized the strike through an extensive underground network, connecting through allies on the…
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Recipes Grandma Beauty’s Recipe for a Delicious Rosh Hashanah
Growing up, I always looked forward to the Jewish holidays, even though my family was not very religious. Those were pretty much the only times we had real food in our house. During the holidays, my mom and I would cook together to recreate my grandmother’s classic old-world recipes — chicken soup, brisket, salmon patties…
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Recipes Chicken Soup With a Kick
Chicken soup, known as “Jewish penicillin,” is an essential recipe for all grandmothers and mothers to have in their bag of tricks. It’s delicious, and bone broth is touted for its restorative powers. I used to look forward to preparing this sweet soup with my grandmother Beauty as a kid, and now as a mom…
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Recipes Mimi’s Marvelous Honey Cake
An essential component of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, known generally as the Jewish New Year, a honey cake (lekach in Yiddish, derived from the German lecke, for “lick”) is meant to symbolize a sweet year ahead. Slices of apples dipped in honey, the other food tradition most associated with Rosh Hashanah, are served…
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Food Mimi’s Sweet Memories
My grandmother was a very young bride, and she had a Hungarian neighbor who taught her to cook. My grandmother was a marvelous cook and a marvelous baker. And she always made this wonderful honey cake. It gets very dark and rich, because of the boiled honey. She always made several cakes, because she had…
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Opinion 5 Reasons You Should Stop Kvetching and Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah
Jay Michaelson published an opinion piece in these pages last week, titled “Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue on Rosh Hashanah This Year.” It was kvetching — the good old-fashioned kind, with the good old-fashioned upshot of accomplishing nothing other than making a bunch of people (many of them congregational rabbis) really, really angry. When…
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Opinion Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah This Year
As the summer ends, Americans get back to business, and for American Jews, there’s no bigger business than the High Holidays at your local synagogue. I have some unconventional advice for you this year: Don’t go. Instead of attending the kitschy mass performances that even your rabbi probably finds uninspiring, choose a different holiday from…
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