Dip the apple in the honey.

[Cort Haus]

Shana Tova!

Happy New Year, Jewish posters!

[LordShiva]

And Happy New Millennium, Ethiopian posters!

[Lorizael]

Jews aren't really the celebratory type, you know. Except in the, "Yay, our people haven't been annihilated yet!" kind of way.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Jews aren't really the celebratory type, you know.

Someone needs to get out more. Im not sure whether to point you towards obnoxious bourgeois bar mitzvah parties, toward hassidic weddings (which routinely run till 3AM), towards simchat torah anywhere, or whatever.

Rosh Hashanah is more subdued, but we DO have a festive meal, including the noted challah and honey, apples and honey, and a new fruit (and in some communities, a head of a fish, and in some sephardic communities, a head of a lamb, IIUC)

Thanks to all.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Someone needs to get out more. Im not sure whether to point you towards obnoxious bourgeois bar mitzvah parties, toward hassidic weddings (which routinely run till 3AM), towards simchat torah anywhere, or whatever.

Rosh Hashanah is more subdued, but we DO have a festive meal, including the noted challah and honey, apples and honey, and a new fruit (and in some communities, a head of a fish, and in some sephardic communities, a head of a lamb, IIUC)

Thanks to all.

I'm just making light of a stereotype.

But more to the point, one of things I like about Judaism (and not Catholicism - the other religion in my family) is that when a holiday comes around, Jews are paying attention to the meaning of the day (which might be rather serious at times) and Christians are paying attention to the presents.

Anyways, this is an even broader and ruder generalization on my part, so I'm going to dip out before the retaliatory flaming begins.