# Happy Jewish New Year !!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755 "2013-01-01T16:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/1 "2013-01-01T16:55:37Z")
It must be the Jewish New Year. How else could I be watching the Tournament of Charoses Parade? :D:D:D Thank you, thank you so very much. You’ve very kind. We’ll be here all week. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/2 "2013-01-01T17:08:06Z")
Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/3 "2013-01-01T17:51:02Z")
As someone who is 1/4 Jewish, I must say that I am 25% amused. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/4 "2013-01-01T18:02:34Z")
As someone who is 100% Jewish, I have to say I don’t get it. 😕 Must be a Jewish-American thing… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/5 "2013-01-01T18:08:09Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > As someone who is 100% Jewish, I have to say I don’t get it. 😕 > > Must be a Jewish-American thing… Tournament of Roses Parade is a New Year’s Day tradition, before the Rose bowl game. Roses Charoses Charoset (think Passover). ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/6 "2013-01-01T18:10:46Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Tournament of Roses Parade is a New Year’s Day tradition, before the Rose bowl game. > Roses > > Charoses > > Charoset (think Passover). Oy! 😛 It’s worse than I thought – it’s both an Israeli-American **and** a Hebrew-Yiddish divide… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/7 "2013-01-01T18:18:53Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Oy! 😛 > > It’s worse than I thought – it’s both an Israeli-American **and** a Hebrew-Yiddish divide… Hah! And the payoff is so baaaadddd! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/8 "2013-01-01T19:12:40Z")
Heeeeeee ! ---
**Author:** ![Cats\_pajamas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Cats\_pajamas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cats_pajamas)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/9 "2013-01-01T19:39:10Z")
This is the worst joke of 2013. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/10 "2013-01-02T00:45:28Z")
> [@Cats\_pajamas](#): > > This is the worst joke of 2013. And it will continue to be. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/11 "2013-01-02T03:26:04Z")
Oh I can but only hope so !!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/12 "2013-01-02T03:49:55Z")
I’m watching _Broadway: The Jewish Legacy_ on public teevee, so this kind of _is_ a Jewish New Year. ---
**Author:** ![Cats\_pajamas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Cats\_pajamas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cats_pajamas)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-jewish-new-year/645755/13 "2013-01-02T14:13:07Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I’m watching _Broadway: The Jewish Legacy_ on public teevee, so this kind of _is_ a Jewish New Year. Had you worn a yarmulke you would have been transformed like Madonna, but without having to show up in a synagogue or kidnap an African child. Think you blew your big chance.