Happy New Year to our Jewish Friends and Neighbors
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2018/09/09/rosh-hashanah-and-yom-kippur-jewish-high-holidays-explained/1251714002/ 2018 Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: The Jewish High Holy Days explained ~ published in AZCentral in Arizona, by Chris McCrory from the Arizona Republic and Ali Phillips Each year, 163 days after Passover, the Jewish community celebrates Rosh Hashanah, which marks the beginning of the High Holy Days leading up to Yom Kippur. The two-day celebration began this year at sundown on Sunday, and will continue through Tuesday night. The phrase means “head of the year." But the holiday actually takes place in the seventh month of the Jewish calendar (the months don't exactly line up to a traditional Gregorian calendar, but the seventh month usually takes place in September and October). The celebration is actually considered the birth or creation of the world, rather than marking the passage of a year around the sun. According to Orthodox traditi