Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is set to begin this week, and it comes a little later than last year's holiday. The holiday, which also can be spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the ...

I’ve always assumed my neighbors knew the additional mental and emotional gymnastics required to be Jewish in a culture rooted in Christianity and White Supremacy. But the past few months, it’s become clearer to me that my well-intentioned neighbors likely don’t know the added stress that Jewish people carry.

Monday night at sundown, Jews around the world began the annual observance of a new year on the lunar Hebrew calendar, a period of introspection and prayers for better times ahead. But right now, Jews around the world have much more on their minds than the ...

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began this week, and it comes a little later than last year's holiday. The holiday, which also can be spelled Rosh Hashanah, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days and leads up to Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays, a period for reflection and repentance. The holiday is celebrated with festive meals, prayers, and the blowing of a shofar, a ram's horn. Observance practices for the High ...

Jewish people all over the world are celebrating some of the most important days in the religious calendar. Rosh Hashanah is a two-day religious festival which begins today (Wednesday, October 2) and commemorates the Jewish new Year and the creation of the ...