Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, and lasts for two days. It marks the beginning of a series of special dates on the Jewish calendar, called the High Holidays ...
Once a year, the sounds of music and prayer fill the streets of Uman. The city in Ukraine's Cherkasy region is a pilgrimage destination for tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews, who travel here to ...