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New Year’s in the Talmud

The rabbis of the Talmud speculated about the nature of the Roman New Year's celebration.

The Fourth New Year

Tu Bishvat, which begins tonight, is the fourth new year of the Jewish calendar. Beginning as  a tax holiday for ...

Symbols of Rosh Hashanah

Visual symbols of the Jewish New Year include the shofar and apples and honey. 

“What is Rosh Hashanah?”

As the only Jewish kid in his middle school in suburban Mississippi, my youngest son Eric will be telling his ...

Rosh Hashanah 32

The origins of Rosh Hashanah Musaf.

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Do our Babylonian colleagues understand the favor we did for them?

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