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Hanukkah: * latkes ( potatoe pancakes)- pan fried potatoe shreds. passover: * Matza- flat bread ( without yeast)- like a big saltine, but without the salt. * horse radish- spicy (hot) radish shreds- comes in red ( purple) or white. * charoset- grated apples, nuts, cinnamon, and red wine * hard-boiled roasted eggs * wine
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Why are Hanukkah meals fried?
To celebrate miracle oil that burned for eight nights
What food is eaten to celebrate Hanukkah?
Special foods include potato pancakes (latkes) and jelly donuts (sufganiyot). Also, any foods fried in oil are traditional.
Why are sufganiyot eaten on Hanukkah?
Sufganiyot are deep-fried doughnuts that are traditionally eaten during Hanukkah. They symbolize the miracle of the oil that burned in the menorah for eight days in the temple of Jerusalem. As oil plays a significant role in the Hanukkah story, the consumption of foods cooked in oil, like sufganiyot, has become a customary way to celebrate the holiday.
Is there any special place that people go to celebrate Hanukkah?
Hanukkah is celebrated in the home, where the menorah is lit, the blessings and songs are sung, the traditional foods are eaten, and the children receive Hanukkah gelt (coins) and play with the dreidel. In the synagogue services, special prayers and a Torah-reading are added to the regular weekday prayers.
What do jewish people eat over Passover?
Instead of bread, matzos are eaten. Other foods are the same as the rest of the year, except that they should have kashruth certification indicating that they are kosher for Pesach (Passover). Leavened foods (cakes, pastries, breads) are not eaten.
What is the seder Passover?
The Passover (Pesach) Seder is a special festive meal held on the night of Passover. In it, Jews tell of the Exodus (From a book called the Haggadah) and have specified foods (including matzoh and bitter herb).
What is eaten on Christmas in Israel?
No special foods are eaten on Christmas in Israel. For the most part, the population of Israel is Jewish. Jews do not celebrate Christmas.
What is eaten at the Passover meal?
The Torah (Exodus ch.12) specifies matzoh, bitter hers and the meat of the pesach-sacrifice. Other foods are not mentioned, but wine, vegetables and fruits were probably on the menu.
What is the food is eaten on Passover?
On Passover, no leavened bread can be eaten. Many people have the custom not to eat legumes because their flour looks very similar or sometimes a little grain may get mixed into them.
How do you celebrate Hanukkah as a family?
You say the blessings and light the candles in the presence of the assembled family. there are traditional songs and foods, plus the dreidel game. There are added prayers in the synagogue services, and some synagogues hold Hanukkah parties.
How do Jews celebrate the festival of hanukkah?
The menorah-candles are lit in the home, special prayers are added in the synagogue services, and traditional songs and blessings are said. There are also traditional foods. See also:http://judaism.answers.com/jewish-holidays/hanukkah
What is done on the night of Passover?
Cleaning the home of regular bread and bread products and shopping for Kosher for Passover foods.
