A Star of David Mask, Jewish New Year Cards - and a Wonderful Wine Dispenser For The Sabbath & Festivals
Happy New Year to Jewish readers and friends. A New Year card sent by my family. Notice the curved ram's horn which is blown to announce the New Year. Traditional matzoh. Matzoh can be used to make matzoh balls, a favourite dumpling in chicken soup and other soups. I went to a Jewish New Year dinner. We were invited for 7.15. Was that for 7.15 prompt, or 7.15 for a much later start? We checked the times of dusk online. We arrived early. The dining table was already laid with names showing where to sit. The weather was good enough for us to gather in the garden. Mealtime Food We started with the brief blessing over the wine. The wine was red kosher wine in small one shot glasses. If you have metal or dark glasses you cannot see the warming colour of the wine. The Wonderful Wine Dispenser Our hosts had a gadget which dispenses wine to several glasses at once. The host grinned as he admitted, "If you don't line the glasses up right, each glass under the spout, the wine goes...