Goldman: Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year

Learn and Celebrate the Jewish Holidays with Books - L.A. Parent

With the High Holidays coming up (Rosh Hashanah begins on Sept. 22 and Yom Kippur on Oct. 1), this is a great time to share some Jewish holiday titles with the children in your life. And don’t forget, we have a Jewish holiday every week on Shabbat! For Babies and Toddlers: Rosh Hashanah with Uncle Maxwritten and illustrated by Varda Livney, Kar-Ben Publishing, 2021 A board book about a beloved uncle visiting his biracial Jewish family for the Hi…

Goldman: Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year

Hersh Goldman This year the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins Monday night, Sept. 22. The Bible calls this day the “Day of Blowing the Horn” (Numbers 29:1). The special horn traditionally blown on Rosh Hashanah, usually a ram’s horn, is called the shofar. The synagogue congregants respond in unison to many of the sets of shofar blasts sounded in the New Year service, with the Hebrew words translated below: “Today is the birthday of the worl…