Posts Tagged: Rosh Hashanah
President Trump, Democratic Frontrunner Biden Mark Rosh Hashanah With Messages to Jewish Community
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden marked the impending Jewish New Year with a fundraiser at which he emphasized Holocaust-related themes and described his father as...
Rosh Hashanah: A Call to Remember
The occasion that we now call Rosh Hashanah is referred to in the Bible only as Zihron Teruah -- the Day of Remembering with Sound....
How Rosh Hashanah Can Change Your Life
JNS.org - There are plenty of somber themes at this time of year -- themes like repentance, atonement, forgiveness and so on. It’s heavy stuff,...
Jewish Population Worldwide Hits 14.8 Million Ahead of Rosh Hashanah
JNS.org - The global Jewish population hovers around 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish new year 5780, according...
On High Holidays, We Are Judged by Totality of Our Characters
You have no doubt heard of the psychiatric condition known as multiple personality disorder. In 1994, this condition was renamed "dissociative identity disorder"-- or DID --...
Annual Rosh Hashanah Statistics: Israel Has 9.1 Million Residents, 89 Percent Are Satisfied With Lives
On the eve of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, ushering in the Jewish year of 5780, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released its traditional end-of-the-year...
Gandhi Letter Wishing Jews ‘Era of Peace’ Ahead of Rosh Hashanah Found at National Library of Israel
JNS.org - An 80-year-old, handwritten letter Mahatma Gandhi wrote to a local Indian Jewish official ahead of the Jewish New Year and at the start...
A Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed
Here are some facts about Rosh Hashanah: 1. The conventional meaning of the two Hebrew words Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is the beginning (Rosh...
Shtisel, Our Flawed ‘Characters,’ and the Day of Judgment
I recently attended an event at which members of the cast of the hit Israeli series Shtisel appeared to talk about the show. The show’s...
10 Million Passengers Expected to Pass Through Tel Aviv’s Airport in the Next Four Months
CTech - Some 10 million passengers are expected to pass through Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport this summer, the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) announced Monday. The airport...
Trump in Rosh Hashanah Message: Strength and Perseverance of Jewish People ‘Inspire Us All”
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania sent the Jewish people their “warmest greetings” on Sunday ahead of the start of Rosh Hashanah. “Rosh Hashanah...
On Rosh Hashanah 5779, Netanyahu Expresses Optimism About Future of Israel and Jewish People
In a Rosh Hashanah message he shared on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed optimism about the future of his country and the Jewish...
Rosh Hashanah: Fairy Tales and Humor
Yes, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are serious days. They require us to place God at the center of our lives and then to repent...
IDF Chief in Rosh Hashanah Interview: Our Main Challenge Is to ‘Be Strong and Deter Our Enemies’
The main challenge facing the Israeli military is to “be strong and deter our enemies,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizekot said in...
