74 | SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 

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

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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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