Jewish Holidays A.K.A Diet days.

Haksameah.) Everybody! Or happy holidays! For the non Hebrew speaking sort. (The word is transliterated so no that’s not how you spell it
I said I would write about Jewish holidays and I will the first being Pessah or Passover. What happens here is that for about a week (maybe two?) all Jewish people go on a no carb diet. That means no bread or grain whatsoever. Did you know that a lot of good food is made of grains??? Pasta, bread and if you are an Ashkanazi (sp) Jew then you have it a bit harder than a Sifardic (sp) Jew who can at least eat beans and rice. Only the Muslim quarter of the city has bread but otherwise I would die.

Another problem… er… I mean… holiday is the Sabbath. On the Sabbath which starts at sun down on Friday everything kinda shuts down and depending on how much of a religious Jew you are then you are not allowed to do any type of work at all. According to a kid in our program there are 32 classes of work that one could possibly do. Work therefore varies from writing something down to using the phone and shutting off the stove. The further implications of that are that the city shuts down, the busses stop running and stores are closed by 3 and don’t reopen until the next day.
On the good side: Passover is done in a week yay bread will abound!!

On the bad side: Shabbat happens every Friday till forever which means alot more scheduling around that time. BOOOO!