This Friday will mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year when Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be here, spending the holiday with my parents,\u201d Molly Krueger, a professional chef and lifelong resident of the Upper East Side, said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be with my aunt and uncle and then my cousins as well. So, it\u2019ll be lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Krueger, celebrating Rosh Hashanah is always special because it involves services at Manhattan\u2019s Temple Emanu-El with friends and family, followed by a home-cooked dinner, which this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I find that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur [are] just a more spiritual time of the year for me,\u201d Krueger said. \u201cIt\u2019s a time of reflection and taking stock of how the year went and what you are looking forward to in the year to come and how you can be better a person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabbi Joshua Davidson of Temple Emanu-El said this Reform synagogue, which seats 2,500, is expected to reach full capacity as worshippers gather for the Jewish New Year.<\/p>\n
\u201cRosh Hashanah is actually also called Yom HaZikaron, the Day of Remembrance,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cIn the Jewish framework, it asks God to remember the covenant with the Israelites at Mount Sinai and, in that loving remembrance, renew us for a New Year of life and health.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year the start of Rosh Hashanah coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. For Davidson, that makes this year\u2019s holiday even more meaningful.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the service, we\u2019ll be honoring the first responders who committed their safety and, in so many instances, their lives to the rest of us, and we\u2019ll be remembering all who perished that day,\u201d he said. \u201cFor those of us who were in New York on 9\/11, that is a day that shaped us and certainly shaped this congregation.\u201d<\/p>\n
One ritual that is closely identified with Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the Shofar which serves as a spiritual wake-up call.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Joanna Samuels, the CEO of the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on the Upper West Side, told NY1 that one of her favorite Rosh Hashanah traditions involves food.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love that taste of dipping apple in honey and the eating of it around my table,\u201d Samuels said.<\/p>\n
Over the last few decades, the introduction of social media, email and text messaging has led to fewer people giving out tangible Rosh Hashanah greeting cards like these pop-up cards that were popular in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrinted probably around 1907, it was printed in Germany for an American market,\u201d Gabriel Goldstein, the curator of Yeshiva University Museum, said as he showed an example. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of wising a new year and a new technology of color printing and tissue honeycomb.\u201d<\/p>\n
But one tradition that does remain is wishes for the new year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hopeful for the good health and joy of our community, [which] has been through so much in these last years,\u201d Samuels said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m hopeful that we continue to move toward a world of greater peace and dignity for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like our big holiday,\u201d Krueger said. \u201cIt\u2019s the start of the year, so it\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
A time made even more special when shared with loved ones and community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Friday will mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year when Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown. \u201cI\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[203,387,25,128,9,24,63,308,7675,10387,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-344459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-education","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-religion","tag-ron-lee","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}