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Tons of fruits are eaten at Rosh Hashanah, though certain ones have been cemented in the classic list of the simanim, or symbols, to be eaten…

Jews, particularly Hasidim, have been traveling to Uman, Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah for several decades by the tens of thousands. This annual pilgrimage has deep historical…

Here are a number of brief answers to the most commonly asked questions ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Where we’ve written longer articles on the subject, we’ll…

Shabbat and the biblical holidays, known as chagim, are observed for a duration of 25 hours instead of the typical 24 hours. Note that these are…