{"id":9624,"date":"2019-12-15T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2020-01-08T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:23:33","slug":"sharing-holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=9624","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Holiday Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Sharing Holiday Traditions&#8221; was the theme of our program on Dec. 15, at the home of our co-founder Betsy Wiggins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 20 people attended this event. President Barbara Bova invited attendees to introduce themselves and to share the cultural, religious, and\/or family tradition behind the dish each had brought. This lively discussion revealed a wide range of different traditions:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Swiss\/German potato casseroles (one was vegetarian, one not) <\/li><li>German holiday lebkuchen pastry \u2013 gingerbread covered in chocolate<\/li><li>Russian\/Lithuanian vegetarian kishke dish<\/li><li>Russian\/Lithuanian Hanukkah potato latkes (pancakes) with applesauce<\/li><li>Pennsylvania Dutch pickles<\/li><li>Greek\/Bulgarian leek pastry<\/li><li>Turkish semolina sweet treats fried in butter<\/li><li>Pakistani samosas<\/li><li>Hamantaschen cookies<\/li><li>Wassail \u2013 a cider-based drink <\/li><li>American pumpkin pie, a family tradition<\/li><li>American apple crumble, a family tradition<\/li><li>American butter cookies, introduced as butter foolsies, a family tradition<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We ate the delicious food and socialized happily \u2013 getting to know one another and our different traditions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upcoming events were announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The tenth anniversary of the World Interfaith Harmony Assembly takes place on Monday, Feb. 3 at 6:30 pm at Temple Adath Yeshurun, 450 Kimber Rd., Syracuse. This constitutes our February WTB program. <\/li><li>In the winter, our informal restaurant gatherings, schmais, will take place at lunchtime. On Jan. 14, it will introduce us (or reintroduce us) to Ethiopian food. (Ethiopian Eritrean\u00a0Restaurant at 1 pm)<\/li><li>The WCNY Travel Auction service opportunity takes place Jan. 16-18. Sis Zucker takes the lead for WTB women who wish to volunteer to help staff the telephone bank. <\/li><li>The March WTB Sunday program takes place on March 15 at Jowonio School.\u00a0It will focus on human rights, perhaps looking at women\u2019s rights in different religious traditions.\u00a0 <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sharing Holiday Traditions&#8221; was the theme of our program on Dec. 15 at the home of our co-founder Betsy Wiggins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programs","tag-dialogue",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9640,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}