笔辞蝉迟罢颈尘别：9/20/2017
Tonight, the Jewish will celebrate their 5777th new year. At noon, GTIIT staff and faculty gathered together to celebrate the Israeli traditional festival.
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Chancellors expressed their greatest wishes and gratitude to all.
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Pro-Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Feng Xinglei
Deputy Director General Yigal Cohen
Technion Liaison Officer of GTIIT Paul Feigin
In accordance with Israeli tradition, GTIIT staff and faculty enjoyed apples dipped in honey together, in hope of a sweet and happy lives in the coming year.
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Shana Tova! Happy new year!
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What is Jewish New Year?
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Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year， which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish lunar year
According to Judaism, the fact that Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year is explained by it being the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman according to the Hebrew Bible, and their first actions toward the believed realization of humanity's role in God's world. According to one secular opinion its origin is in the beginning of the economic year in the ancient Near East, marking the start of the agricultural cycle.
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Rosh Hashanah will last for two days, and the followings are some traditional celebration.
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Apples dipped in honey
Eating symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey is now a tradition, hoping thereby to evoke a "sweet new year".
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Tashlikh
The ritual of tashlikh is performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah Prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many also have the custom to throw bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. In some communities, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on Shabbat, tashlikh is postponed until the second day.
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Greeting on Rosh Hashanah
The Hebrew common greeting on Rosh Hashanah is Shanah Tovah，meaning “have a good year"， people would send greeting cards to each other.
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Special food
Rosh Hashanah meals usually include apples dipped in honey to symbolize a sweet new year. Other foods with a symbolic meaning may be served, say，dates; pomegranates; black-eyed peas; pumpkin-filled pastries called rodanchas; leek fritters called keftedes de prasa; beets; and a whole fish with the head intact. Pomegranates are used in many traditions, to symbolize being fruitful like the pomegranate with its many seeds。
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