Rosh Hashanah in 2025 will begin at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and continue through nightfall on Wednesday, Sept. 24.

It all sounds good in theory. Want to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah wish for a sweet New Year? Easy. Eat some sweet honey cake. It sounds like just the ticket: A moist, slightly sticky treat ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Sunday night, and in symbolic hope for a sweet year to come, many American Jews will eat a slice of honey cake.

Jewish holiday meals tend to be rife with symbolic foods. For Rosh Hashanah (which begins the evening of Sunday, Sept. 25), depending on how one identifies, the list can get rather long.

Every Rosh Hashanah table needs a few things: challah, wine, apples and, of course, honey to bring sweetness to the new year. Everyone has their favorite challah recipe and opinions on apple ...

Ashkenazi Jews have their share of symbolic foods for Rosh Hashanah — beyond apples and honey, that is — such as eating carrots (“meren” in Yiddish, from the same root word as “to ...

Rosh Hashanah, and its custom to put honey on the holiday table, jacks up demand — and demand in a city with 1.6 million Jews is steep. What’s more, ...

It doesn’t matter whether you were born in Brooklyn or Borneo — if you’re Jewish you’ll probably include honey on your shopping list for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on ...

7 Rosh Hashanah desserts that aren’t honey cake. From Nigella Lawson’s salted honey pie to honey and cardamom baklava, these treats will set your New Year off on the sweetest of notes.