Jewish New Year Uk

The date of the festival is based on the hebrew calendar and falls around september or october each year.

Jewish new year uk. The festival lasts for two days and this year it starts on friday 18 september. Jewish people go to temple to pray for a healthy and prosperous new year and hear the ram s horn shofar blown to call them to attention to repent for their misdeeds. In britain this festival normally falls in early autumn and marks the start of a ten day period known as the days of awe initiated by the ritual of blowing a symbolic trumpet known as the shofar traditionally made of a ram s horn.

Jewish new year is a two day festival. Even the blowing of the shofar the ancient horn and a central new year ritual now comes with an official government warning published on the high holy day page of the gov uk website in. Apples and honey are eaten during rosh hashanah.

In common with other jewish occasions the festival begins at sundown the evening before the first day. In the uk it lasts for two days. Dominic raab sends his warmest wishes to the british jewish community and to communities around the world for the jewish new year and high holidays.

Rosh hashanah or rosh hashana is the jewish new year celebration. Published 18 september 2020 from. It is the beginning of the ten days of repentance which ends on yom kippur day of atonement.

Rosh hashanah the jewish new year will be celebrated by jews across the globe from friday september 18 until nightfall on sunday september 20. United kingdom holidays 2020. Rosh hashanah is the jewish new year rosh head hashanah the year.

Find out more about it with newsround s guide. Rosh hashanah is a special festival which celebrates jewish new year. Rosh hashanah begins today a two day celebration which usually takes place in september or october that marks the first day of the jewish new year.