Foto Friday – Apples & Honey

September 17, 2009 - 11:35 PM by Rachel Neiman · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, Foto Friday, General, Holidays 

One of the more lovely traditions of Rosh Hashana is eating apples dipped honey to symbolize our hopes for a sweet new year. At this season, you start seeing apples and honey everywhere. Body artist Flora certainly does…
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Dorit “Dot” Malin, a talented architectural and stage lighting designer, created this lovely image incorporating dance and light.
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Israel’s Fruit Production and Marketing Board has chosen to market apples the old-fashioned way…
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And there are a slew of apple-themed New Year’s animations on YouTube! A small selection follows. Enjoy! And a healthy, happy and prosperous Shana Tova to all.

Picking apples for New Year at Kibbutz Malkiya

Apples and Honey

Shana Tova – the Apple’s Perspective

Shana Tova – Another Apple

Rosh Hashana means honey

September 28, 2008 - 12:42 PM by Harry · 2 Comments
Filed under: Food, Holidays 

I’m quite looking forward to tomorrow. I’m hitting the supermarket this evening with a gargantuan shopping list and will spend most of the night prepping all my dishes I’ll be cooking for Rosh Hashana. Dishes for the new year should always be sweet, so nearly everything I make needs to have a healthy dose of honey in it. Luckily, in nearby Kfar Ruth, a small agricultural village established in the late seventies lies a boutique honeymaker who sells the best honey I’ve had in Israel. Shai Spector opened his honey business a few years ago. It is housed in a beautiful building and is open only on Fridays, because Spector spends the rest of the week tending to his bee colonies. His honey come in many different varieties and he even some that are infused with herbs such as zatar (hyssop) and sage.

I’m no fan of honey cake but found a recipe via Baroness Tapuzina and simply cannot resist making it. It’s called Ka’ikeh b’Ah’sal which is a Honey Cake With Sesame Glaze. The recipe is from the Syrian Jewish cookbook “A Fistful of Lentils” by Jennifer Abadi. You can find the recipe here. The Baroness also links to other interesting Rosh Hashana recipes and I’d like to personally thank her for saving me a few hours of research. As a main course I’ll be making Georgian Chicken in Pomegranate and Tamarind Sauce which I also found via her blog.

Shana Tova to all. May this year bring you prosperity, health and much goodness.

HaBayit Shel Shai Spektor

HaBayit Shel Shai Spektor - inside

Honey is delicious

 

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