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feast
Chanukah at the White House
Rob Eshman
December 6, 2013
My new favorite way to celebrate Chanukah is lighting candles with Barack Obama. The annual White House Chanukah Party was held Dec 5, a day after Chanukah.
The sweet rewards of Rosh Hashanah rituals
Sharon Duke Estroff
September 8, 2007
The change was subtle but undeniable. A slightly deeper shade of brown; carrots cut lengthwise rather than sliced; some scattered sprigs of rosemary. Any other day of the year, such a discrete rift in recipe might have gone unnoticed. But this was not any other day of the year — this was Rosh Hashanah.
Strangers in the night — a Ghetto Purim
Keren Engelberg
March 9, 2007
David and I looked at each other. Did everyone know each other already? This was about to become a junior-high nightmare. Friends were sitting with friends, and no one was sitting with us. At least we weren\’t naked.
A Persian American Feast
Shanee Banfshe Michaelson
September 5, 2002
Every Erev Rosh Hashana, our dining room table is set with the requisite items: apples, honey,tongue and beets. Zucchini and black-eyed peas.
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