Feast Days

Tips from Victoria

ROSH HASHANAH

ROSH HASHANAH SUNDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13-15, 2015. The Jewish New Year is nearly here, which is the beginning of the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah meals typically include apples and honey, to symbolize a sweet new year. Other symbolic foods that may be served, depending on local custom, dates, pomegranates, black-eyed peas, pumpkin-filled pastries called rodanchas, leek fritters, beets, and a whole fish with the head intact. It is also common to eat stuffed vegetables called legumbres yaprakes. Read More