Rosh Hashanah: Rosh Hashanah begins Wednesday, ushers in Jewish New Year, High Holy Days

Rosh Hashanah 5772 is just hours away, and the streets of Yerushalayim are mobbed with people running to do their Yom Tov preparations. Be it cleaning fish heads, chopping pomegranates, getting haircuts, or just pickingShofar. Bohemia. Probably 18th century. Metropolitan Museum of ArtCC Flickr User unforth A shofar or ram's horn is used to summon Jews to Rosh Hashanah.Rosh Hashanah heralds the newness of the year with special traditions such as the blowing of the Shofar, or ram's

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