Happy New Year!!
 

Tonight is New Year's Eve for me.

I will be bringing the year in with wine, apples and honey.

To you ALL of you, may this year bring peace to all of us in the whole wide world. No matter your faith or lack thereof, I wish everyone health and happiness.

Happy New Year to you, Cyn!

Did you make some of your special bread for the occasion?

Peace, good health and happiness to you, as well, my friend. :hug:

Mazel tov!!!!!!! http://www.zoicks.com/smileys/jewish.gif

Happy Rosh Hashana to you! :hug:

Happy New Year Cyn!

I made A LOT of round challas for a lot of people. I think I made 200+ for various dinner parties.

I took great pleasure when I walked into my friend's dinner party (we were a little late) and the bread had already been cut. I asked where the challah was and a young lady told me to be careful, she was eating the whole thing and if I had a piece, I may not stop eating it.

That was before she knew it was me that had made it!:)

One of these days you are going to get a loaf,Twink.:)

Happy New Year to you too.
i always think of my parents at the holiday time. i still miss them and i'm 60.
my mom always had the family over.

Wine, Apples & honey??? Sounds like a great way to bring the New Year in, Cyn.
Is there gonna be cheese? Cause if there's gonna be cheese, then I'm coming over.

Shalom and hope you have a great evening.

Happy New Year!

I hope it's a beautiful year for you and your family. :)

Wishing you a peaceful and happy New Year! I spent Friday night at my Aunt's house with friends and family, so many great memories from my childhood.

Karen

Happy New Year!! :) :hug:

Cyn Happy New Year, please remember me when you are going to
send a Challa to Twink. I haven't had a true one since I moved from NYC

I am not Jewish, I am Cath. but the neighborhood I was brought up
in one block was this nationality and so on. Eastside NYC

We would go to church on Sunday and start home, stopping at the
Jewish Bakery, get our rolls, baileys, bagels, my mouth is watering now. Then
it was onto the Jewish Deli. get a big slice of the cream cheese that was in
the wooden box. get the creamed herring and pickled, a nice fresh slice of
lox.

We then went home and had our Jewish breakfast. We used to smile
between the family, when saying going to Cath. Church Service, come home
and have the best Jewish breakfast. I miss NYC Bakeries.

Jappy :hug:

Cream cheese in a wooden box. Wow, I have never heard of that before. Then again, I grew up pretty far from NYC. That cream cheese must have been homemade. I do not even know how cream cheese is made and what it is made from, now that I give it thought!:rolleyes:

And herring in sour cream. That was one of my weaknesses long ago. My mother-in-law used to make it with lots of onions. I had it for the first time from her. She was so pleased that I liked it. I was so surprised THAT I liked it!

Our Jewish deli always had a huge jar of dill pickles. So big that I could never eat an entire one when my mom was ordering deli meats, kaiser rolls, bagels, lox, cream cheese for Sunday.

What a wonderful memory you must have from those simple days of church and a Jewish lunch!:)

Happy Rosh Hashanah Cyn, and to all those who celebrate this holiday. I was born in Brooklyn, so I know many of the foods and people who celebrated this time of year.

We had nice mix of neighborhood people, so we could get any delightful food we wanted just by going one block this way, or one block that way. :)

Years ago we all got along so well. I wish it were that way today, with all the different people in the world, like it was in my formative years. I wasn't Jewish, but so many of my best friends in school were. We had friends of all religions, colors, and nationalities. Ah life so good. :)

I feel like I was shortchanged, lol. I never had access to those wonderful foods growing up in small town northwest Illinois. I've read books describing the foods and aromas and delicacies though... :Starvin: Probably a good thing they aren't available now, lol. They might not be good for my diet.

This is exactly how I was brought up in NYC. Life was so good and
simple. The simple life seemed so much easier and happy.

I would look out my bedroom window and the Eastriver was there and
I could see Brooklyn. Took the train over many times to Brooklyn. Especially
to visit Coney Island.


"Cyn" the cream cheese was in a wooden box and on it was stamped
Breakstone Cream Cheese, so I guess it was made by them.


Jappy :):)

Growing up in a "mixed" environment would have been an amazing experience.

Living in NYC during that time period especially. I think NYC still affords a "mixed" experience in a lot of ways. DS lives there, in Brooklyn right now and works in Manhattan.

He is young, twenties.

I wonder what he will say about NYC when he is my age.

Happy New Year everyone....I love the traditions of your faith...I
am currently reading the" All of a kind family" books outloud to my 10 year
old daughter. Did anyone read these when they were young? I think they
came out in the fifties.

Its about this large family being raised Jewish on the east side in the
1910's. They go into all the holidays and traditions of the Jewish faith. I just loved
these books and couldnt seem to find them in the library Well, I found them sat.
in a box of old stuff and my dd and I started reading them last night;.

I googled the title "All of a kind family." It was available through Amazon so I read a few of the reader reviews. Wow!

The things I learn on NT.:)

My son was recently up in New York with a college friend and he said that Brooklyn is the "in" place for people his age(20's). He just loved it and wants to go to grad school up there. My folks grew up in Brooklyn and they think it's so funny that it's cool now!

Karen