9/11 merges into Rosh Hashanah

ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778 SECTION D PAGE 19 probably won’t be true for the next generation, and perhaps it’s only the case for New Yorkers or many of us who called New York home for a good chunk of our lives, but remembering 9/11 has become part of the pre-Rosh Hashanah moment. Like apple and honey cake baking, like Selichot, like shofar blowing, a sacred pause to remember back to that day of 9/11 seems to be part of the Rosh Hashanah fabric. At the time, I was living in Israel. But I had just relocated there the previous year, after attending college, graduate school and having my first jobs in New York City. Formative young adult years. When the tragic news unfolded, I felt […]