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In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

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with Gigi Cohen

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Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה‎, literally "head of the year," , Israeli: Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈʁoʃ haʃaˈna], Ashkenazic: ˈɾoʃ haʃːɔˈnɔh, Yiddish:[ˈrɔʃəˈʃɔnə]) is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the "Jewish New Year." It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar.^[1] It is ordained in the Torah as "Zicaron Terua" ("a memorial with the blowing of horns", in Leviticus 23:24. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"), or Asseret Yemei Teshuva (Ten Days of Repentance) which are days specifically set aside to focus on repentance that conclude with the holiday of Yom Kippur.

Rosh Hashanah is the start of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years. Jews believe Rosh Hashanah represents either analogically or literally the creation of the World, or Universe. However, according to one view in the Talmud, that of R. Eleazar, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man, which entails that five days earlier, the 25 of Elul, was the first day of creation of the Universe.^[2]

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In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

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Yom Kippur (Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎, IPA: [ˈjom kiˈpur]), also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for religious Jews. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days.

Yom Kippur is the tenth day of the month of Tishrei. According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a "book" on Rosh Hashanah and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God (bein adam leMakom) and against other human beings (bein adam lechavero). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of Yom Kippur, one considers one's self absolved by God.

The Yom Kippur prayer service includes several unique aspects. One is the actual number of prayer services. Unlike a regular day, which has three prayer services (Ma'ariv, the evening prayer; Shacharit, the morning prayer; and Mincha, the afternoon prayer), or a Shabbat or Yom Tov, which have four prayer services (Ma'ariv; Shacharit;Musaf, the additional prayer; and Mincha), Yom Kippur has five prayer services (Ma'ariv; Shacharit; Musaf;Mincha; and Ne'ilah, the closing prayer). The prayer services also include a public confession of sins (Vidui) and a unique prayer dedicated to the special Yom Kippur avodah (service) of the Kohen Gadol in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Yom Kippur is considered one of the holiest of Jewish holidays and it is observed by many secular Jews who may not observe other holidays. Many secular Jews fast and attend synagogue on Yom Kippur, where the number of worshippers attending is often double or triple^{[citation needed]} the normal attendance. Many other Jews choose not to fast^[1].

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Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

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In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

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Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת, sukkōt, also known as Sukkos, Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles) is aJewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei (late September to late October). It is 1 of the three biblical pilgrim festivals, when it was traditional for Jews to visit the Temple in Jerusalem.

The holiday lasts seven days, including Chol Hamoed and is immediately followed by another festive day known as Shemini Atzeret. The word Sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. The sukkah is reminiscent of the type of fragile dwellings in which the ancient Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. Throughout the holiday the sukkah becomes the living area of the house, and all meals are eaten in it. On each day of the holiday, members of the household recite a blessing over the lulav and etrog, or Four species.^[1]

According to Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there

Shemini Atzeret (שמיני עצרת - "the Eighth [day] of Assembly"; Ashkenazic pron. shmini-atseres) is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. In the Diaspora, an additional day is celebrated, the second day being separately referred to as Simkhat Torah.^[1] In Israel and Reform Judaism, the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are combined into a single day and the names are used interchangeably.

Shemini Atzeret is mistakenly referred to as the eighth day of the Festival of Sukkot, which occupies the seven preceding days. In fact, Shemini Atzeret is a holiday unto itself. There is no use of the Sukkah in Israel on Shemini Atzeret and the lulav and etrog are not waved, although, in the Diaspora, most sit in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret^[2]; however, one of Sukkot's liturgical aliases זמן שמחתנו, "Time of Our Happiness," continues to be used to describe Shemini Atzeret in prayers.

Furthermore, the Talmud, Tractate Rosh Hashanah 4b mentions that Shemini Atzeret is a separate holiday unto itself in respect to six specific halakhic issues, but is considered the eighth day of an eight-day holiday regarding a seventh and sixth days. There is a dispute amongst the commentaries regarding what those six issues are.

Since the Sukkah (and, by extension, pleasant weather) is no longer required, Jews begin to ask for rain during the Geshem prayer, which is recited in a distinctive plaintive melody during the cantor's repetition of the Musaf Amidah. In most synagogues, the cantor is clad in a kittel, a symbol of piety, owing to the vitality of a positive judgement for rain. A brief mention of rain continues to be inserted in the Amidah until Passover.

The Yizkor memorial service is also recited this day. The book of Kohelet is usually chanted on Shemini Atzeret, although depending on place or custom, it might be read on the first day of Sukkot.

Simchat Torah (also Simchas Torah, Hebrew: שמחת תורה, lit., "Rejoicing with/of the Torah,") is a celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. Simchat Torah is a component of the Biblical Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret ("Eighth Day of Assembly"), which follows immediately after the festival of Sukkot in the month of Tishrei (mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar).

The main celebration of Simchat Torah takes place in the synagogue during evening and morning services. In many Orthodox and Conservative congregations, this is the only time of year on which the Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark and read at night. In the morning, the last parashah of Deuteronomy and the first parashah ofGenesis are read in the synagogue. On each occasion, when the ark is opened, all the worshippers leave their seats to dance and sing with all the Torah scrolls in a joyous celebration that often lasts for several hours and more.

The morning service is also uniquely characterized by the calling up of each male member (in non-Orthodox congregations, male and female members) of the congregation for an aliyah, as well as a special aliyah for all the children in attendance.

In the 20th century, Simchat Torah became a symbol of Jewish identity for the Jews of the Soviet Union.

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Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!

In response to requests for how to follow a good vegetarian diet and demystify   healthy eating, we are very excited to now be able to offer this brand new ‘Listen. Learn & Taste’ course. 

Each class covers protein power, carbohydrate confusion, friendly fats, and missing minerals. 

Designed for people with chronic disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, or blood glucose; who have a family history of heart disease, diabetes, or cancer; or who are overweight. Last but not least, we look forward to serving a delicious buffet based on easy to prepare recipes to get you started on your new lifestyle!