Shana Tova 5772 - A Happy Healthy New Year

On Rosh Hashana, we eat all kinds of traditional foods whose words mean something in Hebrew that gives us a clue about how we'd like our future to be.
The easiest way to explain this would be: we serve raisins and celery so that in the coming year, we should have a raise in our salaries.
You get the idea.
Well, there's a traditional Rosh Hashana seder that is filled with all kinds of signs and deeper meanings.
But then again, there's us guys who after our traditional seder, like to just have a little fun. :)
So, here's my menu for this Rosh Hashana. If it helps you get ideas about what to cook this year or next... hooray.
Wishing all a happy healthy new year.
May you be inscribed in the book of life for a happy healthy prosperous PEACEFUL new year.

Shana tova!! 5772!!

Wednesday Night –

Dinner by Ricky – Siman: May you always be blessed with good friends.

Thursday Day –

Steak salad – Siman: May our enemies be shredded.

Burgal or Quinoa – Siman: May Hashem save us from burglers.

Thursday Night –

Chinese Food – Siman: May we multiply like the Chinese. May we be as rich as China. May we take over the world, just like the Chinese.

Friday Day –

Fish & String Beans – Siman: That we should always try to eat healthy and live long lives. And one day, we’ll be as skinny as string beans.

Sweet potatoes – Siman: May our lives be sweet and yummy.

Salad

Friday Night –

Roast beef – Siman: May our enemies be roasted. (Hm, this is a very violent menu.)

Chicken – Siman: May we always have emunah and never be chicken.

Zucchini kugel – Siman: May our lives always feel magical like the Amazing Zucchini! Abra kadabra!

Butternut squash – Siman: May things go smooth for us like butter, even when we feel a little nutty.

Salad

Shabbat Lunch

Shnitzel - Siman: That we should be able to learn to speak Yiddish.

Salad

Seuda Shlishit –

Fish leftovers and salad – Siman: May we never waste food. J

Like Thieves in the Night

The Israeli government seems to like the drama of entering Jewish areas and destroying homes and settlements and synagogues in the cover of darkness, like thieves in the night.

That's how they entered my town of Efrat this morning at 5 AM. With policemen and soldiers, the government's tractor destroyed the foundations of a synagogue in the very center of the community.

The Koresh synagogue was meant to provide prayer services for residents of Western Dekel, but right now the foundations of that shul like in ruins.

The media said that US Vice President Joe Biden was in a better mood today than he was yesterday after he found out that there would be a 1500-unit building project one day in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The world went into a tremendous uproar when they realized that 1500 more Jewish families would call Jerusalem home. Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

But today, Biden is in a better mood. The Civil Administration and security forces destroyed some buildings in Gush Etzion's rural town of Bat Ayin and the synagogue foundation in central Efrat.

Mayor Oded Revivi told Voices that Efrat had applied for permission for the synagogue to be built, but the government has demonstrated clearly that it does not want synagogues, just as it does not want outposts or any other building in Judea and Samara, or Jerusalem for that matter.

I wrote about this issue only a few days ago, http://voices-magazine.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-country-do-or-die.html.

Voices videoed the site of the destruction this morning, and spoke to Mayor Oded Revivi about the event. You can see it on VOICES TV http://voices-magazine.com/voices-videos.php?id=116 .