Rosh Hashanah: Dates, what to know about the Jewish High Holiday

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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays, a period for reflection and repentance.

The holiday is celebrated with festive meals, prayers, and the blowing of a shofar, a ram's horn.

Observance practices for the High Holidays, such as refraining from work, can vary among different Jewish communities.

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 or High Holy Days.

The High Holidays are a time for repentance and reflection, and the day-long fast of Yom Kippur, which falls a week after Rosh Hashanah, is a time in which practicing Jews reflect on sins or wrongdoings from the pr