Jews all over the world will gather this week observing the start of the new year. For some members of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, the services will be a showcase on how well they can read from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish communities across central Illinois will soon gather at synagogues or special services to mark the start of the High Holy ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “joy/rejoicing of the Torah” — the Torah being the first five books of the Bible, from Genesis to Deuteronomy, believed to have been revealed to Moses. Every seven years, ...

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 ...

On Rosh Hashanah, we read these words not as a quaint miracle of the past, but as the very essence of the day. Rashi reminds us that Isaac was born exactly at the time promised — down to the second.

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

Jewish communities across central Illinois will soon gather at synagogues or special services to mark the start of the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah begins the Days of Awe, which are 10 days of ...

What are the High Holy Days? Of the two main High Holy Days, also called the High Holidays, the first is Rosh Hashanah, or the New Year celebration. It is one of two New Year celebrations in Judaism, ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and lasts for two days. It marks the beginning of a series of special dates on the Jewish calendar, called the High Holidays ...

Jewish people observe the High Holy Days in the month of Tishrei in the Jewish calendar, starting this year on the evening of September 22. These holidays commemorate concepts such as renewal, ...