Rosh Hashanah, which celebrates the Jewish New Year and kicks off the start of the Jewish "High Holy Days" or "High Holidays," begins Monday night. The holiday, which continues through Wednesday, is ...

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There are four days in the year that serve as the New Year, and each has a different purpose …. The first day of Tishrei is the New Year for counting years. Rosh Hashanah is the day that makes every ...

This Sunday, Jewish people will gather around the table for the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. The holiday's foods are symbolic: honey-dipped apples and carrots represent sweetness ...

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Family members of hostages held in Gaza set up a Rosh Hashanah dinner table in Caesarea near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence, in a solemn protest highlighting the absence of ...

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On Rosh Hashanah, we read these words not as a quaint miracle of the past, but as the very essence of the day. Rashi reminds us that Isaac was born exactly at the time promised — down to the second.