Steinsaltz is also Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hesder Tekoa.

* Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet

* Yehuda Tzadka, Rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem

Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.

Rabbi Norman Lamm, one of the leaders of Modern Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, opposes giving semicha to women.

* Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg-( 1884 – 1966 ), Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin and author of the four-volume responsa Sridei Aish

* Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Ore

* Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, a Modern Orthodox rabbi who serves as a Rosh Yeshiva in Har Etzion

* Rav Dr. Moshe David Tendler-Rav Tendler is the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics, and is a Professor of Biology, as well as being a Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat Rav Yitzchak Elchanan ( MYP / RIETS ).

Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner the Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin at a special Purim celebration in his yeshiva.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

The Syrians remained in control of a strip of territory along the Sea of Galilee originally allocated to the Jewish state, the Lebanese occupied a tiny area at Rosh Hanikra and the Egyptians retained the Gaza strip and still had some forces surrounded inside Israeli territory.

* Rosh Chodesh observance during at least a portion of the period of the prophets could be fairly elaborate.

Ashkenazi Jews recite them from the last Sunday ( or Saturday night ) preceding Rosh Hashanah that allows at least four days of recitations.

* September 28 – Rosh Hashana begins at sundown

According to Jewish feminist writer Tamara Cohen, the practice of filling a cup with water to symbolize Miriam ’ s inclusion in the seder originated at a Rosh Chodesh group in Boston in 1989.

During the reign of the Seleucids, the border was established at Rosh HaNikra, just north to Achziv, making it a border city and under the control of Acre.

It is blown in synagogues to mark the end of the fast at Yom Kippur, and blown at four particular occasions in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah.

As a Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav ( variantly spelled The Rov, yet pronounced The Ruv, similar to his illustrious uncle Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik who was called " The Rov "), as he came to be known, ordained close to 2, 000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century.

Tradition teaches that on Rosh Hashanah, each person is written down for a good or a poor year, based on their actions in the previous one, and their sincere efforts at atoning for mistakes or harm.

In traditional Jewish cooking, brisket is most often braised as a pot roast, especially as a holiday main course, usually served at Rosh Hashannah, Passover, and Sabbath.

Another specifically Breslov practice is the annual Rosh Hashanah kibbutz, a large gathering at the grave of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine on the Jewish New Year.

Presume neither the Dehiyya Molad Zaqen nor the Dehiyya Lo Adu Rosh ( at least for yom Shlishi ) were being implemented by the Calendrical Court in Israel as certainly was the case at the time of Hillel II.

Rosh HaAyin is named after its location at the mouth of the Yarkon Spring ( rosh

The Givot Olam oil company discovered oil at the Meged 5 oil field near Rosh HaAyin.

The association of the God of Israel with Khnum, a Ram-headed deity, is reminiscent of the blowing the Ram horn at Rosh Hashanah.

The " good luck " traditions of eating black-eyed peas at Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, are recorded in the Babylonian Talmud ( compiled ~ 500 CE ), Horayot 12A: " Abaye 339 CE said, now that you have established that good-luck symbols avail, you should make it a habit to see qara ( bottle gourd ), rubiya ( black-eyed peas, Arabic lubiya ), kartei ( leeks ), silka ( either beets or spinach ), and tamrei ( dates ) on your table on the New Year.

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in September 1999, a Jewish New Year service was held at the Ohel Rachel Synagogue for first time since 1952.

On the eve of Rosh Hashana 2000, Grossman, a student at Yeshivat Bais Yisroel in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem, hailed a taxi with two friends to visit the Western Wall.

Havdalah is also recited at the conclusion of the following biblical holidays: Rosh Hashanah ; Yom Kippur ; the first days of Sukkot ; Simchat Torah ; Passover, both its first and last days ; and Shavuot.

A plan was developed by Israeli Cabinet Secretary Elyakim Rubenstein, who negotiated secretly for many months with rabbis from Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Judaism, including faculty at Yeshiva University, with Lamm as Rosh Yeshiva.

* Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College

* Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College

Dovid Leibowitz ( 1889-1941 ) was a leading rabbi and disciple of prewar Europe's Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania who went on to found the Rabbinical Seminary of America ( which is also known as " Yeshiva Rabeinu Yisroel Meir Hakohen " or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen ) as its first Rosh yeshiva ( dean ) in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York.

Rosh Pinna had the first Hebrew School in 1899.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

" 38: 2 Gog, in this instance, is the name of a person of the land of Magog, who is ruler (“ prince ”) over the regions of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.

The story of Hanukkah, along with its laws and customs, is entirely missing from the Mishna apart from several passing references ( Bikkurim 1: 6, Rosh HaShanah 1: 3, Taanit 2: 10, Megillah 3: 4 and 3: 6, Moed Katan 3: 9, and Bava Kama 6: 6 ).

Rosh Hashanah, which means " the head of the year ", and is celebrated in the month of Tishrei, is " the new year for the counting of years.

However, because of the Rosh Hashanah postponement rules ( see below ) Kislev may lose a day to have 29 days, and the year is called a short ( chaser ) year, or Marcheshvan may acquire an additional day to have 30 days, and the year is called a full ( maleh ) year.

A shofar made from a ram's horn is traditionally blown in observance of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish civic year.

On that day the formal New Year for the counting of years ( such as Shmita and Yovel ), Rosh Hashanah (" head of the year ") is observed.

The Jewish year 5771 AM began on 9 September 2010 ( 1 Tishrei or Rosh Hashanah ) and, since it is a 13-month year, ended on 28 September 2011 ( 29 Elul ).

For Karaites, the beginning of each month, the Rosh Chodesh, can be calculated, but is confirmed by the observation in Israel of the first sightings of the new moon.

In Jewish tradition, honey is a symbol for the new year, Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year ( literally, " head of the year "), although it falls on the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, Tishri.

Similarly, Rosh Ḥodesh ( ראש חוזש ) is referred to by that name exclusively.

The first day of each month, as well as the thirtieth day of the preceding month, if it has thirty days, is a minor holiday or observance known as Rosh Chodesh ( lit., " head of the month ").

* Fasting is normally prohibited on Rosh Chodesh.

: In the month of Tishrei, this observance is superseded by the observance of Rosh Hashanah, a major holiday.

* The date of the forthcoming Rosh Chodesh is announced in synagogue on the preceding Sabbath.

According to oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Memorial or Remembrance ( יום הזכרון, Yom HaZikaron ), and the day of judgment ( יום הדין, Yom HaDin ).

: The assassination apparently occurred on Rosh Hashanah ( 1 Tishrei ), but the fast is postponed to 3 Tishrei in respect for the holiday.