Shalom. Hello, what is up and welcome to how to be a Jew. It's your weekly guide to traipsing through this world and the most Jewish way

possible, finding Jewish wisdom and all the unexpected places, nooks, crannies, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm one of your hosts, Courtney Hazlett. I am joined as always by my favorite rabbi.

Rabbi Diana Furstco. Don't tell the other rabbis, but you're my favorite.

I feel so honored. Good to see you, Courtney.

And as always, my other limb, Josh Cross. go, don't tell the other rabbis, but you're my favorite. I feel so honored. Good to see you, Courtney.

And as always, my other limb, Josh Cross, I can't seem to shake. Am I in armor or a leg, though?

I don't know, TVD. So if you've been following along this show, it is our birthday, as in we are two weeks old, if that's a thing we can mark.

Because we're so young, even though it is New Year's Eve in the secular world, we couldn't just like take the day off or the week off and sit around our televisions and watch the ball drop.

So we're here.

And we are going to talk about,

you know, this mashup of one of the most popular holidays on the Gregorian calendar and how we do it.

So I'll turn it over to you, Josh.

Ever since I've had kids, I've been celebrating other countries' New Year's when we do the Gregorian ones.

So my wife being French,

normally we celebrate at 6 o'clock and then I'm done because you can put the kids to bed.

Like, I don't think I've stayed up for a midnight on purpose in 20 years.

Well, I learned something since you said celebrating other countries. Do you know how it's celebrated in Israel, what they say?

I have no idea.

No, tell us.

They say, hug, how Sylvester.

Why Sylvester, you ask?

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