Holidays
Holiday Recipes
The holidays are a time to reflect, give thanks and celebrate. Holidays are best spent with family, friends and food. There's nothing better than sharing delicious food with the people closest to you. And just like individuals, each of the Jewish holidays have their own traditions and unique recipes. You will find links to generations of family recipes specific to each holiday. It's an accumulation of generations of Sephardi family recipes. I hope you'll enjoy the menus, traditions and recipes from Morocco to the Midwest.
More Occasions to Celebrate
Mother's Day Recipes
Give mom the break she deserves. Select one of these special recipes (and drinks) for the Woman of Valor "Eshet Chayil" in your life.
Father's Day Recipes
To the world, you are a dad. To our family, you are the world! These recipes are sure to please Dad.
Top 10 Super Bowl Recipes
These recipe ideas are sure to get your party jump-started. Big food for the Big Game.
Shabbat Dafina (Hamin, Sephardi Cholent)
No Saturday is complete without the wafting scents and rich flavors of this Moroccan Shabbat stew.
About the Holidays
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year is a holiday observed with festive meals and a day spent in prayer or quiet meditation.
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement and the most solemn day of the Jewish year. It is a day devoted to self–examination, and the chance to begin the New Year with a clean slate.
Sukkot
Sukkot is a celebration of the fall harvest. This holiday also commemorates the time when the Hebrews dwelt in the Sinai wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.
Shemini Atzeret
Shemini Atzeret literally means the “8th day of assembly.” The holiday marks the end of Sukkot with an annual prayer for rain.
Simchat Torah
The day marking the end and the beginning of the annual Torah reading cycle.
Thanksgiving
An American celebration of the year's blessings and harvest.
Hanukkah
This is a festival celebrating liberation from oppression, freedom of worship, and finding light in the darkest of times.
Tu Bishvat
The Jewish “New Year of the Trees,” celebrated with observances that connect us to our environment and the natural world.
Purim
The day celebrating the saving of the Jews from a diabolical plot of destruction, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
Passover (Pesach)
Pesach, Passover is a festival of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt long ago.
Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah)
This is the Holocaust Memorial Day. Jews all over the world mourn the loss of six million Jewish lives lost during the Holocaust.
Israeli Memorial Day (Yom HaZikaron)
Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day is a day commemorating the soldiers who have fallen fighting for Israel’s independence and defending its security.
Israeli Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut)
Yom HaAtzmaut, the Israeli Independence Day is a holiday that celebrates the independence of the Modern State of Israel.
Lag B'Omer
Lag B’Omer is the holiday that marks the 33rd day of the 49-day “Omer” period between Passover and Shavuot, the "Festival of Fruits" holiday.
Shavout
Also known as the Festival of First Fruits, the holiday is the celebration of the giving of the Torah to the Jewish people.
Tisha B'Av
Tisha B’Av is an important fast day commemorating the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE.
Tu B'Av
Tu B’Av is a Jewish celebration of love.
(Detailed information on each holiday can be found on Wikipedia.