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Each Jewish holiday has signature foods, symbolic, traditional, and often delicious. Apples in honey for Rosh Hashana. Sufganiyot for Hanukkah. Hamantaschen for Purim. Matzah for Pesach. Cheesecake for Shavuot. Round challah for the High Holy Days. Lesson 19 introduced the holidays; this lesson is purely about what each one tastes like.
Cultural note, Holiday foods are how Israeli children mark the year. The first sufganiya hits supermarket shelves in November. Hamantaschen overflow bakeries in late February. Matzah replaces all bread for 8 days in spring. Round challah signals the High Holy Days. Even the most chiloni Israeli automatically eats apples in honey at Rosh Hashana, it\'s muscle memory.
Rosh Hashana
Yom Kippur (Pre & Post)
Sukkot
Hanukkah
Tu B\'Shvat & Purim
Pesach
Shavuot
Rosh Hashana Seder Order: Prayer + Food
Sephardi Rosh Hashana has a "seder" of symbolic foods, each with a Hebrew or Aramaic blessing on the punning name. This is the order.
Hanukkah at the Bakery: Sufganiya Order
A typical December conversation at any Israeli bakery (מַאֲפִיָּה). Sufganiyot have evolved, classic raspberry, modern dulce de leche, pistachio, lotus, halva.