Beginning at sundown on Friday, September 15, 2023, Jews around the world will begin to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which ends at sundown on Sunday, September 17, 2023. Rosh Hashanah ...

For people of the Jewish faith, the holiday known as Rosh Hashanah is happening now. Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, which is different than the one that is celebrated on Jan. 1 every ...

One of my early childhood memories is sitting next to my mother in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, rifling through the pages of my prayer book. Having recently learned to read Hebrew, sounding out ...

The two-day holiday known as Rosh Hashanah kicks off the beginning of the Jewish "High Holidays," a ten-day period of repentance and reflection that culminates with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day ...

Prayers of hope that the Jewish New Year will bring peace to the world and the defeat of Hitlerism marked the Rosh Hashanah services this year in the synagogues throughout the country while the ...

It was a Rosh Hashanah like no other. It was the Rosh Hashanah when I felt as if I held a “Book of Life” in my hands. On that day, for the very first time, I opened S.Y. Agnon’s beautiful High Holy ...

(JTA) — My father died two years ago, two days before Rosh Hashanah. My sister Laura, my aunt Judy and I had flown out to Palm Springs a few days before to be at his bedside. Along with my dad’s ...

Jews from around the globe world have begun to celebrate Rosh Hashanah this evening, starting at sundown. The holiday of Rosh Hashanah is also known as the Jewish New Year. This day is among the ...

Rosh Hashanah, from the Hebrew, translates to “head (beginning) of the year.” The Jewish New Year festival is a prefix to the 10-day atonement leading to Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah 2017: When is it?

For people of the Jewish faith, the holiday known as Rosh Hashanah is happening now. Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, which is different than the one that is celebrated on Jan. 1 every ...