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Rosh Hashanah Giveaway: Win a Gorgeous Honey Dish by Yaeli Vogel

07/09/2022 by Karen Cinnamon Leave a Comment

With Rosh Hashanah right around the corner, we’re teaming up with iconic Jewish artist Yaeli Vogel over on our @yourjewishlife Instagram to give away this gorgeous honey dish and spoon – the perfect centerpiece for your Rosh Hashanah table!

This ceramic honey dish is from Yaeli’s High Holiday 2022 Rimon Collection that includes Jewish New Year challah covers, Simanim dishes, napkins, prayer books, and more!

Yaeli’s got such a delightful and uniquely whimsical style in the world of Judaica, and her heirloom-quality pieces are just SO special (they also make great wedding gifts!).

How to Enter

To enter all you need to do is to like our Instagram post, leave a comment with your favorite thing about Rosh Hashanah, and tag a friend. Please note you must also follow both @yourjewishlife and @yaelivogel on Instagram to be eligible to win.

The competition is open to anyone 18 and over, wherever you are in the world, so hop on over to Instagram and get your entry in before Monday September 12 at 5 PM EST!

Free 7-Day Rosh Hashana Challenge – We Start Tomorrow!

09/09/2020 by Karen

Image: Peace Love Light Shop

Happy Wednesday! Just a quick one to say that we start our Rosh Hashana challenge tomorrow!

With the New Year coming up, how about making some new Jewish friends inside the challenge community?

Whether you’re Jewish or Jew-ish, married, engaged or single, you’ll meet new people, and go from unprepared and “where do I start?” to leaning into your identity to create a fun, meaningful and fabulous Rosh Hashana.

FUN PRIZES!

I’m also giving away Starbucks vouchers, Amazon vouchers and a mystery grand prize!

So whether you’re able to get together with family or not, come and join our warm and inclusive Rosh Hashana community and have fun, win prizes, and have an even more authentic and beautiful Rosh Hashana than you ever thought possible.

Free 7-Day Rosh Hashana Challenge (Starts in 48 hours!)

08/09/2020 by Karen

Rosh Hashana will be different this year, with communities unable to get together in the way they’ve done so for thousands of years.

But it doesn’t mean that this year Rosh Hashana can’t be just as memorable and meaningful… And whether you’re a Rosh Hashana regular, or you’ve never ever done this before, I want you to celebrate it beautifully (fun cocktails and pretty tablescapes included!) with a little help from Smashing The Glass!

I’m running a FREE 7 Day Rosh Hashana challenge (whether you’re Jewish or Jew-ish, married, engaged or single) that will take you from unprepared and “where do I start?” to leaning into your identity to create a fun, meaningful and fabulous Rosh Hashana.

We’ll be talking easy Rosh Hashana recipes, fun cocktails, music playlists, table decor, and also more symbolic themes of reflection and intentions for the New Year.

I’ll be going live every day inside the RH challenge pop-up Facebook group to talk about a different element of RH and everyone who takes part will get a ‘Rosh Hashana challenge’ bingo card too!

Each square will have something different on it ranging from very basic things like ‘buy or make your Rosh Hashana challah’ to making table decor to more meaningful squares about new beginnings etc. We’ll all have fun trying to get a line on the bingo card – or even a full house…. and there will be PRIZES too!

On yes – prizes like Starbucks vouchers, Amazon vouchers and a mystery grand prize that I will reveal during the Challenge!

The challenge starts on September 10 2020 and it’s for everyone whether you’re Jewish, Jew-ish, married, engaged or single… come on in!

A Nitzan Krispil Bride for a Laid-Back Seaside Wedding at Beit Andromeda, Tel Aviv, Israel

31/05/2019 by Karen Cinnamon

We’re always obsessed with Israeli oceanside weddings…. especially when they’re smack dab in the middle of picture-perfect Old Jaffa. Like the gorgeous Jewish wedding of Olga, a graphic designer, and Chen, a programmer, which we’re totally and completely obsessed with.

It’s hard to go wrong when you’re starting out with a venue like Beit Andromeda. Throw in cool, contemporary photography with just a little bit of edge from mega-talented Smashing The Glass Recommended Vendor Gamba Photographers (the couple have known Gamba’s Avihai since their military service!), and you’ve pretty much got a slam dunk.

And that’s before we even get into the awesome touches the couple added to reflect the fact that their wedding was the day before Rosh Hashanah – in honor of the holiday, Olga and Chen adopted the themes of blossoming and new beginnings, and added sweet details from honey jar favors to fun dancefloor props embellished with floral and fruit motifs (handmade by the bride and her friends in the buildup to the big day – love that!).

We also love the couple’s commitment to making sure they crafted a wedding that truly reflected who they are – so in line with what we believe her at STG, and what we want to make sure all brides (and grooms) to be have the tools to accomplish for themselves. That’s why we’re so excited about our first-ever FREE Jewish Wedding Planning Bootcamp, starting this Monday, June 3 – it’s going to be truly unmissable, so if you’re planning a Jewish or Jew-ish wedding, do sign up!

Now back to Olga, who looked effortlessly romantic in her two-piece Nitzan Krispil…

How we met

Olga, the bride: We met during our military service at a mutual friend’s birthday party, and got married 6 years later.

A Suzanne Neville Bride for a Super Chic Seaside Jewish Wedding at Rosh Hashanah, Bait al Hayam, Jaffa, Israel

30/03/2018 by Karen Cinnamon

Can you believe it’s Erev Passover this evening? How did that happen already?! And what are you doing for seder night tonight? I’m on holiday and we’re having our Seder in Tel Aviv, celebrating with my family in Israel, so it seems appropriate to post a gorgeous Israeli wedding today!

And today’s real Jewish destination wedding fully embraced another beautiful Jewish holiday: Rosh Hashanah.

London-based bride Jamie, a PR and marketing manager for a cancer charity, and groom Joel, who works in finance, opted for a chic outdoor destination wedding in sunny Jaffa, Israel, during the High Holiday season.

Opting to marry at gorgeous seaside venue Bait al Hayam, the couple had an outdoor rooftop chuppah overlooking the city of Jaffa and the sea, with the party in a beautiful air conditioned room beneath — a big deal given the Israeli climate!

In honor of Rosh Hashanah, Jamie and Joel had mini honey pots and apples at each place setting — isn’t that sweet?! We love that this couple incorporated Jewish tradition into their day in ways that were totally authentic to them.

For instance, even though, as Ashkenazi Jews it would have been customary for them to have their badeken separately from the chuppah, they chose to do it on the aisle, because that’s what spoke to them.

And the pair opted to follow the Jewish tradition of not seeing each other in the week leading up to the wedding… that takes some real dedication!

Their wedding also had some incredibly cool touches inspired by sources other than Jewish tradition: for one, as part of their entertainment they had a flower stall where guests could have flower wreaths, bracelets, hair slides, and boutonnieres made! Isn’t that lovely? And a great alternative activity if you’re not into some of the more standard options like photo booths.

Photographer Ronen Boidek captured the day in all its effortless elegance and the insanely talented STG Recommended Vendor Portnoy Brothers brought emotion out of all of the guest through their incredible acoustic sound and beautiful traditional songs. We can’t recommend the Portnoy Brothers enough, one of our absolute favourites! Jamie, who looked super glam in her old Hollywood-style silk Suzanne Neville gown (seriously, we’re all a little bit obsessed with it at STG Towers), will fill you in on the rest.

Hag Sameach – enjoy your matzoh ball soup wherever you’re celebrating this evening!

How we met

Jamie, the bride: I always knew of Joel… I lived with his brother at university, but I met Joel properly once I moved to London, at a friend’s birthday. He carried me out of the bar over his shoulder and we’ve never looked back! 😉