NPR's Linda Gradstein joins us now from the town of Rosh Pinna in Northern Israel.
As an added precaution, I promised my mom I wouldn't attend Rosh Hashanah services at the synagogue downtown.
Probably the only time in history anyone has promised their mother that they wouldn't attend Rosh Hashanah services.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year, the time when we think about our past year and plan for our next.
The night before Rosh Hashanah, I found myself drinking beers on the rooftop terrace of a place called the Greek Club.
But Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are also opportunities for reflection.
It did not take long for Jewish leaders to express outrage and threaten to boycott the site and for a reluctant Ms Rosh to abandon her idea.
At one synagogue on Manhattan's upper West Side, the congregation gathered Monday night for Rosh Hashana minus six members who were lost during last week's attacks.
Scientist Rosh Ranasinghe, associate professor at UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, has now succeeded in developing a new model that is able to produce much more accurate projections.
Do they openly use their smart phones in inappropriate places, such as first dates, at Rosh Hashanah or Christmas dinner, in hospital delivery rooms, or on job interviews?
For instance, continuous harassment by Arabs from the village of Tuba Zangaria forced Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi just east of Rosh Pinna to abandon 4, 000 dunams (400 hectares) of land.
In the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah is followed by Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, when observant Jews ask forgiveness for the sins of the past year and recommit to improving the next.
The following afternoon, as I celebrated Rosh Hashanah by myself in Old Cairo, I kept coming back to that story, to the bravery of those six or seven people who protected the holy place of another faith while their own country was in the throes of revolution.
But when Lea Rosh gave a speech at the inauguration of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial, she stunned the audience by brandishing a molar she found 17 years ago at Belzec, a Nazi concentration camp, and saying she would set it into one of the memorial's 2, 711 concrete pillars.
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