Shana Tova

Happy New Year to all who celebrate this day.

At Religion News Service, Lauren Markoe has a quick “Rosh Hashanah 101: What you should know about the Jewish New Year.” (Wikipedia’s entry is more informative, but it doesn’t have video.)

Rabbi Brant Rosen offers a lovely reflection “On a New Year of Healing, Hope and Transformation.”

Every opening of a door, every act of peacemaking, every move we make to heal the world around us has the potential to create a sacred transformation. They can make a difference in ways we can see readily and in ways we will never truly know. …

And, just because it’s awesome, here is a picture of Dizzy Gillespie blowing a shofar.