Please help me do my job: organising a work event to celebrate Rosh Hashana

[Marie2023]

Hi everyone, as the title says, I am organising a work event to celebrate Rosh Hashana. I need to think about food, decorations, music and anything else to make it a special occasion. I like the idea of a beautiful piece of music and a slideshow. Would really appreciate some ideas. Many thanks.

Rosh hash is Saturday/Sunday, this year, so the party would presumably be before or after. As others have said, there is far more chance of offending people off than pleasing them. I would be inclined to do something for Chanukkah instead (in December). That is a cheery festival with lights and no great religious significance.

OP, it’s wonderful that you want to represent Jewish festivals at work but I strongly advise you to reconsider your choice of Rosh Hashanah. It is a very solemn period leading to Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Hebrew calendar. I would strongly recommend Hanukkah instead. Hanukkah falls fairly early this year (the first night is 7 December) so you can give it proper attention before the Christmas festivities begin.

We will be celebrating Christmas in December.

Anyway, we’ve decided to scrap it and do R U OK Day instead. It’s a shame as we had wonderful Eid celebrations earlier in the year and we truly wanted to celebrate the diverse culture in our workplace, but the risk of offending someone is too great.

Yes def Hanukkah instead. Far more appropriate, lots of easy traditions like choc coins and yummy donut type things. Def never ever get a plastic shofar with a non Jewish person to blow it!!

Not the whole month, surely. It would be a powerful celebration of diversity to acknowledge that Christmas isn’t the only major religious festival celebrated in December.

You want to celebrate the diversity within your workforce, or you want a sequence of evenly spaced, conveniently jolly festivals to tick an EDI box........ 🙄

Please, tou need to rethink your whole perspective on this, you are trying to make yourself feel and look good.

R U OK? What on earth is that. How do you lot get any work done celebrating all these festivals and random days.

That is putting a bit of effort in. Don't guess what your colleagues want!

It's a very good point

You won't do anything for Hanukkah because it's in the same month as Christmas?!

Agreed!

We only get together once a month and Christmas was booked at the beginning of the year.