A happy, healthy, and sweet New Year! Stars celebrated Rosh Hashanah with holiday wishes for their fellow A-listers — and all of their fans.
“Shana Tova to all who celebrate! Wishing you a happy and healthy new year,” second gentleman Doug EmhoffThe first-ever Jewish spouse of a President or Vice President was greeted with joy by the country on Monday 26 September. Vice President Kamala HarrisEmhoff and Emhoff tied the knot in 2014, and Emhoff shared her message to the public the day before.
“Shana Tova! @SecondGentleman and I send our warmest wishes for a happy, healthy, and sweet New Year to all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah,” she tweetedSunday, September 24, with an image showing a honey pot and apple. (Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year — is typically celebrated by dipping apples and challah, a type of bread, in honey for a “sweet” New Year. The common greeting, as stars have shared this holiday, is “shana tova,” which translates to “a happy new year” in Hebrew.)
Comedian Sarah Silverman, for her part, had a decidedly different — and hilarious — message for her followers.
“I was at a coffee shop and spilled a little by accident, resulting in an under-my-breath ‘oy,’” the comedian wrote via TwitterTuesday, September 26, 2006. “A guy near me said ‘did you just say ‘oy?’ and I said yeah and he said, ‘Happy New Year.’ Life is sweet.”
In a follow-up tweet, she quipped: “…and that’s when I realized it was rosh Hashanah. #badjew #ShanaTova.”
Barrystar Henry WinklerOn Monday, he tweeted well wishes for all his followers. “A HAPPY and SWEET New Year to you all !!” the Happy Days alum, 76, wrote.
“Shana Tova my friend!!!” replied Frozenstar Josh Gad.
“Sweet Happy New Year to you and yours Henry🍎🕊🙏🏻,” Broadway icon and CheersAlum Bebe NeuwirthIn response, I wrote.
Winkler was in Israel for the first-time earlier this year and opened up about his Jewish identity.
“I love being a Jew,” the actor told The Jerusalem Post in April, later telling i24 News that he was “so happy” to be in Israel for the first time. (The U.S.-Israeli TV show features the Scream star. Chanshi.)
Emhoff, for his part, told Politico that same month that he wasn’t initially expecting to discuss his Judaism so much when he became second gentleman in January 2021.
“I went in anticipating: ‘Who is going to care that I’m Jewish?’” he told the outlet. “I didn’t expect to feel the way I felt about being in this role.”
However, the attorney is now happy to embrace his historic role. “When you see a bunch of kids cheering for someone they see in this position who is Jewish … I was reflecting, 40-something years ago, if I was in this assembly and you told me there was going to be a Jew married to the vice president, I would have said, ‘There’s no way. There is just no way,’” he added.
