I’ve just posted my traditional Rosh Hachana message in hydro-Arabic, Yiddish and Hebrew, but also in Welsh …

5781….Happy Jewish New Year, Mara am akhore khirminada!!!Tayere fraynt,
Ikh vintsh aykh ale a gitn roshashoyne yontev un a zise naye yor, mit gezund, mazl un sholem! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

Thanks to my cousin Claude, my friends Michel Borzykowsky and Lisa Williams

I adored the immediate reactions from Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Gaza Territory, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Laos, Slovenia, Switzerland, South Africa. Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, UAI and the USA… from all over the world, Jews and non Jews alike were fraternally sending their warm regards in this year unlike any other one….Jewish or not!

Given the new travel restrictions and the second wave hitting Europe, we won’t be able to gather as we did last year at my moms and our celebration will take a much more intimate note. It is not bad once in awhile, to break the old habits and it has happened in the past that we had to celebrate either the New Year or the atonement day on around. This year, we didn’t have a choiceGiven the new travel restrictions and the second wave hitting Europe, we won’t be able to gather as we did last year at my moms and our celebration will take a much more intimate note. It is not bad once in awhile, to break the old habits and it has happened in the past that we had to celebrate either the New Year or the atonement day on around. This year, we didn’t have a choice, Yet we feel privileged in so many ways that this New Year sounds almost like a Thanksgiving !

A pumpkin field near Forcalquier where we spent a blissful weekend last week!

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