{"id":8173,"date":"2011-09-29T06:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T10:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2011-12-01T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:52:35","slug":"lshana-tovah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2011\/lshana-tovah\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Shana Tovah! Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. We blow the shofar (ram’s horn), eat apples and honey as well as a ton of other food (like on all other Jewish holidays). Copywriter Nina Mozes offers tips for how to celebrate the first day of the new year with a thoughtful card.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Turns out, it’s pretty impossible to write a Jewish card without being stereotypically Jewish.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

Happy New Year. May this year make you feel like complaining only a little bit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s the card I’ll be giving my parents. Here’s the one I expect from them:<\/p>\n

Happy New Year. Maybe this year will be a good year and you’ll make lots of money. And then you can move out of the house, marry a nice doctor and give us grandchildren.<\/p>\n

If that’s too over-the-top for you, try a punny joke:<\/p>\n

A congregation member walks into synagogue and asks the rabbi, “How is your New Year going?” The rabbi replies, “Shofar, sho good.<\/p>\n

Thanks. That one’s all me.
\n(Look, I admit it’s not Torah-fic. I know better than to gefilte fish for a compliment.)<\/p>\n

Have a happy and a healthy!<\/p>\n

Have your apples and honey with a twist:
\nGiro Apple Slicer<\/a><\/p>\n

If you get the clip, the money will come:
\nYiddish Proverb Money Clip<\/a><\/p>\n

No one says no to a little spiritual bling:
\nShalom Necklace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spelling L’Shana Tovah is hard enough. Here’s what to write inside the card. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}