{"id":63022,"date":"2020-09-17T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=63022"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:52:24","slug":"how-are-orthodox-jews-observing-the-high-holidays-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/how-are-orthodox-jews-observing-the-high-holidays-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Orthodox Jews Observing the High Holidays During the COVID-19 Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to make its presence felt, Jewish faith communities across the U.S. are faced with the problem of how to celebrate the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which are generally times of greater synagogue attendance, and still protect those who choose to observe the holy days.<\/p>\n<p>For the Jewish people, the High Holidays are a time of penitence. The period begins on September 18 with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The day is often heralded by the blowing of a horn called the shofar, historically created out of the horn of a kosher animal such as a ram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-are-orthodox-jews-observing-high-holidays-during-covid-19-pandemic-1531861\">Continue reading on Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus continues to make its presence felt, Jewish faith communities across the U.S. are faced with the problem of how to celebrate the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which are generally times of greater synagogue attendance, and still protect those who choose to observe the holy days. For the Jewish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Are Orthodox Jews Observing the High Holidays During the COVID-19 Pandemic? - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/how-are-orthodox-jews-observing-the-high-holidays-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Are Orthodox Jews Observing the High Holidays During the COVID-19 Pandemic? - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the coronavirus continues to make its presence felt, Jewish faith communities across the U.S. are faced with the problem of how to celebrate the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which are generally times of greater synagogue attendance, and still protect those who choose to observe the holy days. 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