Join me, Mimi (Israeli Kitchen), and other English-speaking bloggers
for an evening of networking and discussion. Nosh provided by Mimi.
The event will be held Saturday evening, October 17, at 8:00 PM, in Petach Tikvah.
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It would be expected that I would think about my mother, as my daughter and I sat down for Kol Nidrei. From my seat I could see the daughters of the woman who died last Rosh Hashanah, the wife and daughters of another shul member who died a few months ago, and behind me were the wife, daughters and granddaughters of the Holocaust survivor whose eerie, yet moving, funeral we attended at 11:30 PM the previous night. And the next morning we would say the Yizkor prayer for deceased relatives.
(The title is the literal translation by one of my children of shaon choref, otherwise known as standard time.)
Yom Kippur begins this afternoon (Sunday), with candle-lighting at 4:52. Last night we changed the clocks to standard time. After much wrangling and never knowing when the clocks would change until the last minute, a compromise was worked out in the Knesset to change before Yom Kippur every year. In most years, we will change them back in time for the Passover seder. Changing it last night was a dumb idea for several reasons:
Southern Lyctus Beetle Commonly Infecting S'chach
Yated Neeman has a letter from Rabbi Moshe Wye on a little-discussed halachic issue for Sukkot: Insects falling from your s’chach into your food. [See note below.] The Hebrew text appears on the Jerusalem Kosher News blog. I summarized the most important points below:
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Neve Yaakov: Immodest and Modest Women Asked to Sit Separately
According to the religious Zionist weekly Matzav Haruach, the following sign appeared in a playground in the haredi neighborhood of Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem:
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Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish year 5770. Storms are predicted for tomorrow evening. I can’t ever recall storms on Rosh Hashanah, just intense heat. Likely we’ll get both. 
I met BadforShidduchim at the Second Jewish Bloggers’ convention. She seemed mature and poised, and I wish I had had more time to talk to her.
In a recent post, she asked female singles to rate qualities sought in a marriage partner:
Please order the following characteristics according to their value to a girl from most important to least important: (feel free to add to the list or change it; there is no order to the list; if you don’t understand one of the descriptions feel free to substitute it with whatever you think it probably means).
Was it the freezer last year? Yes, it was.
For years I’ve enjoyed my Hagaz, a type of timer for gas stoves that allows you to cook on Yom Tov. On certain weekday holidays, one may light a stove from an existing flame but not put it out. Newer models of stoves are equipped with a sensor that turns off the gas as soon as the flame goes out, preventing gas leaks, but the stove still heats up the house and leads to a waste of gas (and a high bill). Many people I know use an electric hotplate to warm up food, but that doesn’t work for soup and I like to have the option of cooking. I can manage without if I have to, but will need to adjust my menu in a serious way.
Congratulations to new immigrant Kate, who won the Oh Nuts! Rosh Hashanah gift basket.
I picked comment #15 using the random number generator at Random.Org.
Thanks to everyone who participated.
I’ve collected posts on preparing in honor of Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Friday evening, September 18 and ends after dark on September 20.
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