I live in Israel and yesterday we celebrated a new year. We call it Rosh Hashana. In Israel we celebrate Rosh Hashana in Autumn according to Jewish calendar and it's the most important holidays of the year. It's family celebration and the whole family gets together for a dinner. Sometimes it could be more than 30-40 people. Usually people buy gifts and made a lot of food because the celebration lasts until late night. Our family do traditional ceremony before dinner with sweet red wine ( kiddush wine) and symbolic food such as challah bread, apples with honey, pomegranate, and other food which means that a new year will be sweet, healthy and good for all people. Each food has a different meaning. We hold food and read the blessings before the food will be eaten. After we have holliday dinner with small talks.