Stern-Zager Family Customs
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My name is Tyler Zager and I am a 5th grader at the University School. I live in Weston Florida. My Grandma Diane Stern also lives in Weston, even though she was born in New York.
My mom and I interviewed my Grandma Diane who told me that her favorite Jewish holiday is Hanukkah, especially when the entire family gets together. Her favorite memories about Hanukkah are lighting the candles, making latkes and cookies. Each night the family would eat, light the candles and get presents. They would play dreidels with choice coins as the prizes. Even now, Grandma Diane likes to make latkes at home.
Grandma Diane’s favorite Passover memory is about her mother’s great matzah ball soup. 15 family members would get together for the Seder dinner and everyone loved the soup! Grandma also enjoyed the gefilte fish. During the week, her treat was matzah pizza.
Grandma explains the steps and meaning seder to anyone who wants to know. She thinks it is very important for me to remember that the slaves were set free!
מילון
DreidelA four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hay), ש (Shin), which together form the acronym for "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters were originally a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word nisht ("nothing"), Hei stands for halb ("half"), Gimel for gants ("all"), and Shin for shtel ayn ("put in"). In Israel, the fourth side of most dreidels is inscribed with the letter פ (Pei), rendering the acronym, נס גדול היה פה, Nes Gadol Hayah Poh—"A great miracle happened here" referring to the miracle occurring in the Land of Israel. (Wikipedia)
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”Fifteen family members would get together for the Seder dinner and everyone loved the soup“![הקשר הרב דורי](https://www.ravdori.co.il/wp-content/themes/ravdori/images/general/logo-mail.jpg)