The Yo-Yo Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays


by David Bader


from How to Be an Extremely Reform Jew

HolidayFast or Feast
Rosh Hashanah Feast
Tzom Gedalia Fast
Yom Kippur More fasting
Sukkot Feast
Hoshanah Rabbah More feasting
Simchat Torah Keep feasting
Month of Heshvan No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on yourself.
Hanukkah Eat potato pancakes
Tenth of Tevet Do not eat potato pancakes
Tu B'Shevat Feast
Fast of Esther Fast
Purim Eat pastry
Passover Do not eat pastry
Shavuot Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes etc.)
Seventeenth of Tammuz Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)
Tisha B'Av Very strict fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes)
Tisha B'Av Very strict fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes)
Month of Elul End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating Disorders before High Holidays arrive again.




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