Choose Your Rosh Hashanah 2018 Menu: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Asian or Israeli
Haaretz's food specialist Vered Guttman curates four menus for you to wow your Jewish New Year guests.
Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews start the Rosh Hashanah meal with a series of symbolic foods.
Each of the foods, including black eyed pea, squash, pomegranate and dates, are accompanied by a blessing, called Yehi Ratzones (Yehi ratzon, meaning “May it be your will” in Hebrew), based on their name in Hebrew or Arabic.
Here are the accompanying blessings.
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Make this new year meal about Eastern European Jewish comfort food, with some traditional recipes and some with a twist.
Make this Jewish new year dinner unconventional with these Asian-inspired holiday recipes.