Rosh Hashanah 2015: When is the Jewish New Year?

Rabbi Joseph Schonberger explained the observance of Rosh Hashanah actually is 40 days overall.

According to Cohn, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are almost equivalent to the Christian celebrations of Christmas and Easter.

Blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashana at a synagogue in Southern California. They also say prayers asking for God’s favor and blessings for the new year.

“In antiquity, people had to go to Jerusalem to bring offerings and sacrifices”, added Rabbi Ammos Chorny of Beth Tikvah of Naples. Words of greatness and sovereignty, companionship and memory, and the joyful blasts of the shofar.

“It’s meant to sound like the cry of a child”, Greenberg said.

“So numerous Jewish prayers talk about finding God and nature and yet you’re sitting in this cavernous space talking about finding God and nature”, Levy said.

This will be followed by “Yom Kippur” the Jewish “Day of Atonement”, on Tuesday, September 22 and Wednesday, September 23, the holiest and most sacred day on the Jewish calendar.

“Rosh Hashanah is a time of both communal celebration and personal reflection”.

The fasting, traditionally without even water, is a time to control the animal nature in man and focus on the soul, Spitzer said. Does G-d really need me to pray? “It’s an exciting time, and it’s a time that is pregnant with possibility”.

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Members of the congregation and visitors will enter Tuscaloosa’s only synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, pick up an apple slice, dip it in honey and eat it before attending services. Other favorites are honey cake and pomegranates. While often students try to make it home for the Jewish holidays, with the start of the academic year coinciding with Rosh Hashana this year, most will be staying put.

The challenge for synagogues will be to contain these debates; the challenge for individuals is to find ways to discuss these issues without driving wedges between friends and family.

But Rabbi Steven Jacobs said it is his job to prepare for the services. Many Jewish people around the world will be focusing on these acts in the upcoming days. As they sanded the horns, he said that “sometimes we can be a little rough, and in Rosh Hashanah we try to smooth ourselves”.

The pact’s fate in Congress is already seemingly decided, “but now that the decision is made”, he said, “how do we come back together, close the gap and heal the rifts that have emerged in our society over the last few months that the deal has been fought over?”

Now, rice, dried vegetables, and nutrient-rich meals will be packed for the hungry in the Third World during the first ever “Stop Hunger Now: Rosh Hashanah Festival at the JCC is a Chance to Make a Difference” event from 10 a.m.to 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the JCC, located at 5738 Forbes Avenue, Squirrel Hill.