| Basically I eat just like everybody else. Nothing special really. Because we are Jewish, we don't eat pork. I think that is not very special because I have a lot of Moroccan, Islamic friends who don't eat pork either. The pig is an impure animal. Most Dutch people eat pork and at parties I always have to ask if I can eat the snacks. People look very oddly at me and ask for an explanation. Mostly I don't feel like giving it so I just say I'm a vegetarian.
If you stick to the rules of Judaism, you can only eat meat that is butchered in a very special way. This we call kosher. Kosher means that Jewish people are allowed to eat the food. Muslims have a similar tradition, they call it halal.
For myself, I just adore anything that is sweet, especially ice-cream. It doesn't matter what temperature it is outdoors, I can always eat ice-cream.
Every Friday we have a Sabbath meal, even though we are not orthodox Jews. My mother buys tasty bread and we have eggs. The food doesn't have a special meaning. It's more important that we are together as a family and talk about the week before. I think this is very sociable. Sometimes I hear other people complain about the obligation to eat at home but I think it's very enjoyable.
The only thing which is 'special' to me is Great Reconciliation Day (Yom Kippur). Jewish people fast for one day and think about the things they have done wrong in the past year and how they can try to make it change for the better. Last year I joined in with Ramadan. That is more or less the same thing. | 
