Jewish Housewarming Gifts: Traditional & Modern Gift Ideas for the New Home - Salt, Sugar, Bread and More

A simple and symbolic gift of challa, cookies, rugelach, babka, or other "bread" gifts can be given along with a bottle of wine, salty nuts, and sweets such as chocolates and candies.

See below for delicious Kosher gift baskets and other treats that can honor the new home of a new Jewish couple, man, or woman.

Salt is another simple traditional Jewish housewarming gift. Note that most salt is kosher, whether or not it's called kosher salt - "kosher" salt merely gets its name from its use as an ingredient to process kosher meats.

Books make a fabulous Jewish housewarming gift. Each of these wonderful books to welcome a Jewish man, woman or couple into their new home has lasting appeal, with humor, advice and information about Jewish traditions.

People interested in Jewish lore and tradition will be fascinated by A Blessing of Bread , The Jewish Home, and How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household. 

With wisdom and sensitivity, What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home? attempts to bridge the distance between traditional Judaism and "new" traditions. It will strike just the right note with the new homeowners or apartment dwellers sensitive to generational and modern conflicts about the best way to practice Judaism.

For Jewish college students, try The Jewish World in Stamps or Rogov's Guide to Kosher Wines.

Kosher gift baskets and gourmet goodies are an excellent Jewish housewarming gift idea for any single man, woman, or couple. Presents of food provide not just good taste, but nourishment and energy during what can be a hectic time - the move-in and adjustment period.

Give bread, sweets, or a meal for a warm housewarming. From cheesecake to chocolate brownies to rugelach and cinnamon buns, to low-carb nuts and healthy dried fruits, delicious and nourishing food is a traditional Jewish housewarming gift that will always be welcome in their new home!

A Jewish home is more than four walls - it's beautiful objects, traditional artifacts and festive music that create memories for the people in it.

When they first move in, a new home may not feel like home to your son, daughter, friend, coworker, grandson, granddaughter, or other family member or acquaintance. Help give it an established, lived-in feel by bringing in beauty and song to their home - right at the start.

Consider giving housewarming gifts of Jewish songs and music, hand-made Shabbat candlesticks the recipients will treasure, or a traditional mezuzah to place on the doorpost of the house, condo or apartment.

Some Sabbath candlesticks are handpainted works of art; others are simple and elegant candlesticks.