rosh hashanah

Rosh Hashanah is the first day of the Jewish High Holidays leading up to the most significant holiday, Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement.

Rosh Hashanah is a two-day holiday celebrating the Jewish New Year and kicks off the start of the Jewish High Holiday season. Here’s everything you need to know about this important holiday celebrated by people around the world.

Jewish families in Connecticut are finding new and different ways to observe the High Holy Days in the age of COVID-19.

Like most everything this year, members of the Jewish faith are preparing for a very different celebration for the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur due to COVID-19. “It’s odd to be able to say this is the very first time in all of Jewish history, that we are doing this,” said Rabbi Marci Bellows of Congregation...

Jewish families are preparing to mark the faith’s High Holy Days despite the challenges and restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic.