Jewish Holidays 2025 Rosh Hashanah In Hebrew Calendar. Click here to view an overview of how jewish life at duke observes holidays with services and meals, including a schedule and information of high holiday (rosh hashanah and yom kippur) services. Rosh hashanah, first of the high holidays, is the jewish new year.
Jewish days and therefore holidays start at sunset of the previous evening. The tragic news reached the babylonian exiles five months later, on 5 teves 422 bce (ezekiel 33:21).