Apples and Honey
Traditional Foods eaten at Rosh HaShana

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Rosh HaShana
(Happens on September 18-19, 2001 - Jewish Year 5762)
For the New Year - LeShana Hadasha
Let the evils of passing year - end!
  Let’s start a blessed one!

An artistic glass and silver honey jar
Rosh Hashanah, which literally means the head of the year, commemorates the anniversary of the creation of the world. It is celebrated on the first and second days of the seventh Hebrew month, Tishri. Depending on the solar calendar, Rosh Hashanah occurs in September or October.
Rosh Hashanah, when all living things are judged, is often referred to as the beginning of the Jewish New Year. However, the Hebrew month of Nissan, in which Passover is celebrated, is the first month of the Jewish calendar.
Rosh Hashanah is actually only one of four symbolic Jewish new year celebrations.
(after A. Kramer)

The Rosh Hashanah Dinner

The Rosh Hashanah Dinner was celebrated in our Dining Hall, at evening, September the 17th. Hundreds of kibbutz members, their guests and children, shared the Rosh Hashanah Great Party, performing, singing and wishing one to each other the New Year wishes and expectations. Thereafter the people were served delicious food, specific for the New Year, where a portion of  "Gefuelte Fisch", a sweet-cooked carp, played the major role in the menu.