Click here for a listing of Rosh Hashanah's corresponding secular dates for the upcoming years.
Festival Candle Lighting
All women and girls light candles on each evening of Rosh Hashanah and recite the appropriate blessings. Continue...
New Year Greetings
It is customary to greet each other with special wishes on the first night of Rosh Hashanah. Continue...
Traditional Foods
There are many special foods we eat on Rosh Hashanah. All have special significance and symbolize sweetness, blessings and abundance. Continue...
Shofar Blowing
The shofar serves to trumpet our coronation of G-d as King of the Universe, as a call to repentance, and to evoke the memory of the Binding of Isaac.
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Cast Away Your Sins - Tashlich
On Rosh Hashanah we go to a lake, river or to the sea and recite the Tashlich prayers, where we symbolically cast our sins into the water and leave our old shortcomings behind us, thus starting the new year with a clean slate. Continue...
