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Rosh Hashanah card gallery

In my last post, I was going to spotlight the Rosh Hashanah cards that I was featuring recently at the 2026 Indiana Jewish Festival. Then I thought that topic probably deserved its own post.

All cards are available in 2 sizes: standard 5″ x 7″ folded card (comes with A7 envelopes) or a small 4.25″ x 5.5″ folded card (comes with A2 envelopes).

Inside messages are coordinated with each design. Visit the Greeting Cards section of my Etsy shop to see all of these and more. Note that these listings are seasonal, so they are typically only active from early August to early November, depending on the calendar.

And now I’m going to go study my davening (chanting of the service liturgy) for Rosh Hashanah shacharit in just a few days.

Wishing all my readers a healthy and sweet 5787.

Indiana Jewish Festival 2026

I turned up here to see that my last post was regarding the 2025 Greater Chicago Jewish Festival (which was awesome, by the way). More than a year later, last week (Sunday, August 30) I had the privilege of exhibiting at the second annual Indiana Jewish Festival, which was organized by Chabad of Indiana and held in Carmel on the City Hall lawn.

Schultz Yakovetz Judaica’s booth at the 2026 Indiana Jewish Festival, featuring some new Rosh Hashanah cards in the display rack at left.
Portrait of the artist with a variety of art prints displayed in 5×7 clip frames, which is the main format I brought to this show.

I had a steady stream of foot traffic for the entire 3 hours of the festival, all from very nice people, with some interesting moments of my favorite game, Jewish Geography. Also, Carmel is a particularly pretty little area, although maybe not as famously beautiful as its eponym, Mount Carmel in Israel.

I will definitely look forward to next year’s festival… when hopefully I will also not be recovering from a 2-week power outage in Northwest Indiana that cut significantly into my prep time.

Note: The next biennial Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is currently being planned for June 2027, but they haven’t announced a date yet. My money is on June 20, even though it’s Father’s Day, because the 13th is Isru Chag Shavuot and the 6th is still during the Omer period when instrumental music is traditionally avoided. But we’ll have to see what they say.

Rosh Hashanah Apple Papercut

The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, starts tonight at sundown. Happy 5778! And this month, despite being too busy to blog much of late, I did manage to create a new Rosh Hashanah card design.

I did a custom Etsy order earlier this year for a text design in a faux-papercut style, which got me interested in doing one for myself. Papercutting is a traditional Jewish art form, and this piece incorporates a traditional Rosh Hashanah blessing: “May it be Your will, our God and the God of our ancestors, that You renew for us a good and sweet year.” These words are recited over the apples and honey that are so emblematic of Rosh Hashanah.

For my personal sending, I ordered 4.25″x5.5″ double-sided flat cards from OvernightPrints. But I’ve also posted a 5×7 version (customizable) on my Zazzle shop:
Rosh Hashanah Apple Papercut Card

Shanah tovah u’metukah! A good and sweet year to all my readers.

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Because this is still a design blog: Who By Fire

I’ve occasionally tried my hand at creating holiday cards, but never anything particularly inspired, somehow.

Then during Rosh Hashanah services this year, I managed to remember that the Thing I Do is play around with text, especially Biblical or liturgical text… and there’s no shortage of great material in the High Holiday liturgy. Which excited me, even if it results in a bit of a departure from your basic apples-and-honey “good and sweet year” greeting card motif.

So here’s the first one:

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed...

This famous liturgical passage is from the central U’netaneh Tokef section of the Rosh Hashanah Musaf prayer service. Click to enlarge.

I have a few more passages still in mind to work up. Next year I intend to actually get some of them printed up in time to use for the holiday… so I made sure to use up the last few mundane ones in my stash this year.

Edited to add (2015): Buy it on Zazzle!

Ketivah v’chatimah tovah: May you all be written and sealed for a good year.