Jewish Holidays 2024 Rosh Hashanah News. The holiday that occurs on the 1st day of tishrei is called rosh hashana, the jewish new year. With rosh hashanah and yom kippur—the most significant celebrations on the hebrew calendar—jewish religious leaders and security experts geared up to address potential.

Originally a “memorial of blowing of trumpets,” rosh hashanah has by rabbinical tradition become a “day of judgment.” the holiday—and the ten days of awe that fall between it and yom kippur—provides us. A new tradition of eating pomegranates on rosh hashanah arose at about the same time, based on the false belief that the number of seeds in a pomegranate is.