Rosh Hashanah

Virtually everything you need to know about Rosh Hashanah: How-To Guides, Essays and Insights, Holiday Stories, Traditional Recipes, Multimedia, and much more!

Sept. 28-30; Oct. 7-8, 2011

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of 1 and 2 Tishrei. Here are the coinciding secular dates for the upcoming years: 2011:   September 28 (at sundown) - 30 2012:   September 16 (at sundown) - 18 2013:   ...

All other Jewish holidays have something happy and beautiful about them. Rosh Hashanah only frightens me.

Why do we take our New Year’s Day so seriously? What’s this whole judgment deal? Why all the prayers? Can’t we just party?

Unless you're particularly religious, "G-d" is probably not a word that you use comfortably

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A King had an only son, the apple of his eye. The King wanted his son to master different fields of knowledge and to experience various cultures, so he sent him to a far-off country...

Golan apples dipped in honey; raisins and bananas; pumpkin jam, apple jam, and quince jam; leek, dates; pomegranate seeds; candied carrots; beet leaf and sunflower seed patties; piquant fish; heart and lung cooked with black-eyed peas (rubia); and tongue ...

How are we to reconcile the loftiness of Rosh Hashanah with the mundane subject of a significant part of its prayers? Chanah's prayer offers the response to this profound question.