FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...

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Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation hosted its annual Erev Rosh Hashanah Shofar Walk Wednesday, bringing around 200 people together to celebrate the holiday. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new ...

KYIV, Ukraine — For the first time since Ukraine was plunged into war in 2022, soldiers on the front lines could hear the blast of the shofar marking the Jewish new year. The largest Jewish communal ...

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 ...

Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening. “The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram’s ...

The two-day holiday known as Rosh Hashanah kicks off the beginning of the Jewish "High Holidays," a ten-day period of repentance and reflection that culminates with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day ...

For people of the Jewish faith, the holiday known as Rosh Hashanah is happening now. Rosh Hashanah celebrates the Jewish New Year, which is different than the one that is celebrated on Jan. 1 every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and lasts for two days. It marks the beginning of a ...