In my house, we usually celebrate with honey and apples and then blow the shofar and then light candles and also attend synagogue. And we also perform Tashlich.
In my house, we usually celebrate with honey and apples and then blow the shofar and then light candles and also attend synagogue. And we also perform Tashlich.
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For those curious,
Rosh Hashanah is the New Year for Judaism.
I do not celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
I don’t because I’m not Jewish.
I’m Jewish. Honey and apples. That’s all we do.
I’m not Jewish, so at most I’ll wish other people a happy Rosh Hashanah if they celebrate it
I am not Jewish but I wish my Jewish friends a happy Rosh Hashanah and later they will have Yom Kippur
As someone who isn’t Jewish, don’t out yourself as Jewish. There are thousands of data collection efforts like this attempting to identify your race, ethnicity, and political affiliations. Mods shut this down!
Growing up we just did honey and apples. I don’t do anything now.
Erev: dinner with the family, with challah and apples and honey, then synagogue.
Day of: synagogue in the morning. Then my synagogue has luncheons, where everyone is invited to someone’s house. So we usually go to whichever one we were invited to. Typically we go to Taschlit after lunch, but we skipped this year because Im injured and didn’t think I could walk down at the pond.
When I was a kid we would sometimes go visit my Aunt and go to her synagogue, but we stay home now.
I’m not Jewish, but my Jewish friend had me over for apples & honey and we watched Twilight
By getting raptured
Going to shul and enjoying the service.
By going to work like the goy I am because I’m not actually Jewish.
Only 2.4% of Americans are Jewish. It’s a safe bet that most of the rest don’t celebrate it.
Exceptions would be those married to Jews, or close friends. I’m Christian, but I’ve celebrated Passover a few times with Jewish friends.
I’m not Jewish, so Rosh Hashanah celebrations are not a thing for me, but all this talk of honey & apples makes me want to partake.
With a brisket and a rail of blow.
i have a lot of jewish friends so i’m aware of it and the impulse to buy apples exists but i’m not jewish myself and only celebrate religious holidays that aren’t mine when i’m invited. i don’t generally do more than pop a shana tovah to people i know celebrate it
I chill and relax because I’m off work (I’m a teacher).
I don’t as I am Catholic. My wife enjoyed the day off from work though
My family is about 50/50 for synagogue but we usually gather for dinner. I missed this year to go do a different family event 😅
I went to six flags. I’m not Jewish but I had the day off for the holiday
Since I am not Jewish, I usually do something along the lines of, “huh, anyway”
Your answers are going to be quite skewed at this time because all the more religious people will be offline for 2 days
I don’t.
My parents would make us go to temple at night for erev Rosh Hashanah and then again in the morning for services the day of. Then we’d do tashlich and come back home where we always host a big dinner- my mom is one of those people who invites everybody she’s ever met to dinner. We don’t have a very big house but it would always be at least 20 people not including our immediate family.
Usually by Googling Rosh Hashanah because I confuse it with Yom Kippur. I know one’s New Year and one’s atonement but never recall which is which and I don’t want to wish someone a “happy day of atonement”
Honey cake!
As someone who is ethnically Jewish but not observant: look at the calendar, say “huh, it’s Rosh Hashanah” and then go about my day.
I’m not Jewish. I didn’t even know what that was until my late 20’s. I don’t celebrate at all
I had Chinese food.
Turnabout’s fair play.
I look at my wife and say, “hey, did you know today is Rosh Hashanah?”
Then I go about my day.
My family isn’t particularly religious, so we don’t do the shofar or anything, but we do have a big traditional extended-family meal. Apples and honey, challah, brisket, etc.
(Though, we don’t always do it on the actual day of Rosh Hashana, like this year… Tuesday isn’t a very convenient night for those of us who have to travel!)
I’m not Jewish so nothing, I live down the road from a Jewish place though and I was wondering why it was so busy today. I’m used to seeing the place full on Saturdays, threw me off for a bit.
NGL I never knew what it was other than it is a little footnote in my phones calendar. Never bothered looking it up. That’s cool to know what it is now.
I’ve never known anyone that celebrates it
I’m not even Jewish but I make a brisket. Because brisket is delicious.
Happy New Year, y’all!!
Blowing the chauffeur….man, you Jews sure know how to treat the help.
Get together with friends and family and have a nice dinner, talk, enjoy some cake, drink some wine.
We watch the trashy cartoon about how Moses is actually a CIA spook, and he learns about the power of friendship as he saves the High Holidays from the evil VillainCorp Robot Army, thus learning the true meaning of Rosh Hashanah. It’s not actually good, but it’s a classic.
Then we make Rosh Hashanah cookies and decorate the Rosh Hashanah tree.
I’m not Jewish, but it was a school holiday for me.
I think about the poor goats.
Services last night and again this morning. Ate apples and honey and apples and honey flavored things.
Honey, pomegranate
Dinner at parents’ house, day off work/ school, attend services
I don’t know who or what that is.
I haven’t celebrated in at least a decade. My family never did anything more than a family dinner.
Apples & honey. Brisket (2nd ave deli recipe on Epicurious), challah (Rose Levy Berenbaum), honey cake (RLB).
Services.
That’s how most Jews celebrate it?
I’m not religious at all, but some of our close friends are messianic jews (so they don’t practice kosher and they’re okay with eating pork) and they invite us over for most holidays and we always have a great time. That said, they’re the only people we know who are any sort of Jewish at all, so I’m not suggesting that this is a super common thing around here.
They had us over for an early Rosh Hashanah over the weekend and we had a good time. Apple pie, a salad with diced apple and honey in it, and a chicken bacon ranch casserole (because there was kind of milk in it and it sounded good lol).
We’ll also be going to their place for Sukkot in a few weeks!
Really observant Jews are not going to be online to see this, so these responses will tilt strongly Reform or secular.
As a secular Jew, I celebrate Rosh Hashanah by glancing at my calendar and thinking: “Oh, hey, it’s Rosh Hashanah!” Then if I happen to have any good apples in the house, I might eat one, just for old times’ sake. No honey, though, because I’m diabetic and neither enjoy honey enough nor care enough about tradition to want to take the blood sugar hit for it.
Growing up, though, my family would have a big brisket dinner, eat some apples with honey, and then usually decide to abandon our plans to go to evening services.
My parents were quite secular as well, but just a tiny bit more observant than I am. Or perhaps just a lot more vulnerable to guilt over their easily assimilated ways. 🙂
We did reliably attend services for Yom Kippur, though — although I suspect that the Break Fast hosted afterwards by some friends of my parents had a lot more to do with their reliable attendance on that one day each year than any genuine religious sentiment.
I normally just attend services online to the synagogue my parents would go to…but it’s been a very tough time lately and just didn’t have it. I’ll at least catch the sermons as they often uplift my spirit and resolve.
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We have a nice dinner. A quick blessing of the bread and wine and then we dig in.
I don’t celebrate holidays
We had challah last night and apples and honey. Went to services. Went to services today.
I have a pastrami sandwich from my favourite Jewish deli because that’s all I know of Judaism. Shalom!
I’m not Jewish, but I live in the most Jewish county in America:
We take the family and go on vacation to Ocean City, Maryland.
It was a bit messy this year as the kids actually had school on Monday, so we drove down Friday, I left my wife and her mom here, the kids and I drove back on Sunday, then back down after school on Monday. We go back home later today.
Sadly, next year it falls on a weekend, so no long weekend for us.
L’Shana Tovah!
As Irish Catholics by wishing our neighbors who celebrate it a happy Rosh Hashanah
I’m not jewish, so I don’t.
Im not Jewish, but the holiday falls very close to my birthday every year, and I love challah bread so much. Its always a great opportunity to get some. There’s a bakery that makes a great cherry, apple raisin. Its just delicious.
I spent rosh hashanah in Arizona. And Yom kippur down in mississipur.
As a Catholic, we don’t.
I don’t.
We bought a round Challah which we ate with our dinner. That’s about all we do for Rosh Hashanah these days. I did text our adult children “Shana Tova” (Have a good New Year) and they responded in kind.
That’s pretty much how it’s celebrated here, but it also depends on your level of observance. The less religious you are, the more likely you are to celebrate with a nice meal with friends or family.
We don’t because we are Catholic but we do mention it during the Mass and offer a prayer for our Jewish family that is celebrating.
My kid doesn’t go to school for a short while.
I’m non denominational Christian, but I fully acknowledge Christianity comes from Judaism. I usually just respectfully wish my Jewish friends Shanah Tovah.
Best wishes for an amazing coming year, everyone!
By driving around in Five Towns listening to Lowkey very loudly. IYKYK.
Not Jewish so not actually celebrating the holiday. But, I am a teacher in CT so I get the day off. Usually I go out drinking the night before with my other teacher friends and then sleep in.
I say L’Shana Tovah on Facebook, and then make sure to park my cars in my driveway so that people going to the services across the street from me can find parking.
As a Christian in my mostly Jewish hometown, mainly enjoy a free day off from school while all my friends were busy with family stuff.
I don’t know what that is.
Listening to my mother ask me why I haven’t gone to Temple to meet any nice Jewish boys today
Also maybe some apples and honey 🙂
We used to go apple picking, but haven’t the last couple years just because it’s more of whimsical “welcome, Fall” thing more than anything else. It’s just fun that our apple picking weekends usually coincides near Rosh Hashanah. Typically we just have some sliced apples with honey at dinner time. Maybe bake an apple crumble if we’re really feeling it. Otherwise that’s about as observant as we personally get.
My kids’ school was closed yesterday, and I work from home so I just had a really hectic day. I don’t know what Rosh Hashanah is, but that’s what it said on their calendar.
I am a religious Jew, (so until now I was offline during the holiday)
On both evenings – evening prayer in the synagogue, then a holiday meal with all the Simanim: apple in honey, pomegranate, dates, carrots, fish head, and so on
On both mornings, we go to the synagogue again, from 6:30 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon, there are prayers, with a short break for kiddush in the middle. Then we say Tashlich (near a pond with fish)
And then another holiday meal, but without the Simanim.
I’m not Jewish, so I don’t. 😉
Who do you blow?
I have extended family that does, but my immediate family is Christian because my great-grandfather was raised Christian.
Can’t say that I do lol. I’m not Jewish and honestly I don’t think I even know anybody who is
I’m not Jewish so I have a question.
I know Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year so do you fast? Do you just pray?
Synagogue for erev Rosh Hashanah and the day itself. Lunch at Shul, usually a nice dinner with family. Back to synagogue for day 2, and we are doing a tashlich/shabbat combo at the end of the week.
We go to temple, eat honey and apples, challah bread, have a meal with the family and use fancy dishes. I also make a honey cake for dessert. There are never leftovers from the cake.
Ingredients
Flour 1 cup + 2 tbsp
Baking soda ¼ tsp
Brown Sugar 1 tbsp
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt ¼ tsp
Sugar ½ cup
Wet ingredients
Honey ⅓ cup
Coffee ⅓ cup
Orange juice 2 tbsp
Vegetable oil ⅓ cup
Vanilla ½ tsp
1 egg
Optional toppings: Slivered almonds or an extra drizzle of honey or chocolate chips.
Instructions
To make this honey cake, begin by preheating your oven to 350°F (175°C) and greasing a 9×5 inch loaf pan. Combine the wet ingredients (eggs, sugar, vanilla, oil, and honey) in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder), then gradually add them to the wet ingredients. Finally, mix in the warm coffee (I make a cup of coffee and then pour 1/3 of a cup into a liquid measuring cup. I add the liquid coffee to the batter and drink the rest of the coffee I have made. I use an heaping tbsp plus water in a mug for my coffee measure). until the batter is smooth. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for approximately 40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool in the pan.
I like to pour the batter half way and add chocolate chips, then put the rest of the batter.