Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) at Mir and Benny’s – A Memory Book

Lighting the holiday candles

Sister Mir, carrying on the tradition of Mom’s Ashkenazi cooking, not forgetting for a minute the Sephardi flair of the greater family.

Iraqi Jews have special blessings for the New Year, with various foods, including greens and lentils, dates, honey apples, and fish.

May we be full of blessings, like a pomegranate…

These sugary figs aren’t part of an official blessing, but just the best I’ve ever tasted.

May we be ‘heads’ and not ‘tails’….

Mir even baked the challahs.

Daughter Assif made delicious meat lasagna (no cheese, sorry folks)

Jewish cannonballs, otherwise known as kneidlach.

And Mir’s famous meatballs…

The roots of the Jewish people…

in the chicken soup, of course.

With gorgeous niece-in-law Michal