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Holiday
Activities
Looking for a holiday activity to try?
Here are a few of Debbie Morosohk’s suggestions:
Make a challah in a holiday shape. Round challahs are pop-
ular this time of year and represent the cycle of the Jewish year.
But you could also try making your challah into the shape of a
shofar, for example.
Learn/try to make the sounds of the shofar. If you listen care-
fully, you’ll hear the different sounds the shofar makes. There’s
tekiah, one long note; shevarim, three short notes; teruah, nine
staccato sounds; and tekiah gedolah, a long, unbroken blast
held as long as possible that gets louder at the end. If you
know somebody with a shofar, maybe they can teach you
how to make a sound!
FUN FACT: At Rosh Hashanah services, you
could hear 100 shofar blasts. And, at the
end of Yom Kippur, you’ll hear it
again.
Apples & Honey
Leora’s Favorite Song:
DIP THE APPLE IN THE HONEY
(to the tune of “Oh, My Darling Clementine”)
Dip the apple in the honey
Make a bracha loud and clear,
L’shanah Tovah U’metukah
Have a happy, sweet new year!
ROSH HASHANAH
KIDS SECTION
Asher
and Leora
Jahnke
A
sher Jahnke, 8, of Huntington Woods, is excited to spend Rosh Hashanah with his family.
Cousins, his Nana Evelyn and Papa Lou Wolff and Bubbie Betta Singer, aunts and uncle will join
him, his sister Leora, and their parents for apples and honey and dinner to celebrate the start of
the new year.
“We usually do the same thing,” the second-grader says of their holiday traditions, which include picking
apples ahead of the holiday, attending services and spending time together. “I like eating apples and honey.”
Leora Jahnke, 5, says her favorite thing about the holiday is the songs. “I love the songs from the
holiday,” she says, adding that she even knows a Yiddish one from attending
Lamplighters preschool last year in Royal Oak. As for her favorite
kind of apple, she adds, it’s red.
Your Best Self, A Fresh Start
Ten days after Rosh Hashanah comes Yom Kippur,
and the days between those two holidays are called
the Ten Days of Teshuvah.
If you’ve ever hurt somebody’s feelings, gone a bit
awry on your parents’ requests or gotten impatient with
your siblings in a way you wish you hadn’t, this is a time
when you can join tons of other Jews in apologizing, asking
forgiveness and committing to doing better in
the year ahead.
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