Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year festival. It lasts two days and commemorates the creation of the world. Judaism teaches that Rosh Hashanah is also a time when God judges all humanity.

A wave of new High Holidays prayer books continues with a Hebrew-English machzor from the Israeli ... with Koren Publishers releasing a Rosh HaShanah-only volume. Its Yom Kippur companion will ...

Themes: the festival of Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish New Year ... It's a time of fasting and prayer and Charlie says it can also be an anxious time, worrying about God's forgiveness.

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah ...

(JTA) — If you find your synagogue’s prayerbook a little dull at Rosh Hashanah services next week ... the machzor contains many of the same prayers recited by Jewish communities today ...