Shared Meals for High Holidays 2010
Erev Rosh HaShanah, Wednesday September 8 at 7:45 PM
This is right after our Rosh ha-Shanah evening service. If you can’t come to the service, please still come to join in for Kiddush and dinner.
RESERVATION REQUIRED by SEPT 5TH! (Instructions below)
Choice of Vegetable Soup with Barley or Gluten Free Soup
Choice of Honey Mustard Dill wild Salmon or Lasagne
Kiddush – Apples and Honey – Challah
Roasted Eggplant – Israeli Salad – Chickpea Salad – Rice
Cake ( wheat free, too) – Fruit – Tea
Please bring a bottle of wine or non-alcoholic spritzers for your table!
HOW TO RESERVE:
- Calculate the amount: $25 for adults*. Half-price for children under bar/bat-mitzvah age. (*Please note that this price does not cover the actual cost of the meal, which is $37.)
- IMPORTANT: Specify your choice of soup and main dish!
- Either write a cheque to Ahavat Olam, 2644 Manitoba St., Vancouver, V5Y 3A8, deliver cash to the door, or leave voice mail for Michal at 604.780-1054 with your credit card information. (If you’re financially stretched, talk confidentially to Reb David about a discount. If you’re flush, donations to the Rabbi’s Discretionary to help out are appreciated.
First Day Rosh HaShanah, Thursday, Sept 9 at 12:30 PM
After-service Kiddish with wine, apples and honey, and cake.
First Day Rosh HaShanah, Friday, Sept 10 at 1:00 PM
Se’udah (festive lunch) – our traditional pot luck!
All friends and family are invited, and everyone needs to bring a dish that feeds about 12 people.
Ahavat Olam will provide challah, kugel, cake, apples and honey. The rest is up to you; here are some ideas of popular dishes:
- Salads of all kinds (bring salad dressing in separate container) from green to bean, egg to tuna
- Casseroles, quiches and more (remember no meat, poultry or shell fish!)
- Hot potato, rice, or quinoa dishes
- Drinks: juices, pop, and all kinds of wine are fine (no bottled water, please)
- Fish: all fin and scale fish welcome, including lox, salmon, tuna salad, herring, sole, trout, mackerel, and so on…
- Bagels and cream cheese + fixings
- Other yummy breads and spreads
- Hummus, tehina, eggplant dishes, couscous
- Fresh fruit (cut up)
Important: No meat, no soup!
Equally important: If you have an allergy, please be sure to make a dish you can eat and label it appropriately.
Break Fast, Yom Kippur, September 18th at 8:15 PM
Delicious and soothing meal – Ahavat Olam provides the essentials – miso soup, kugel, cake, challah, and apples and honey – you bring the rest. Same guidelines (above) apply.
Call or write Michal (604.780-1054) or (michal@mivasair.com) with any questions or concerns about the kiddushes and seudot.
