The Jew of the Aktyubinsk community celebrated Rosh-ha-Shana - New year, 5772nd. It marks on a lunar calendar. For two days that the holiday lasts, it is necessary to be in time: to visit on service, to ask pardons for the family and to cover a table duly. So has developed from time immemorial that our, Jewish, New year is in harvesting time, it’s summarizing of year. There was no exception meeting of 5772.

By the long-term tradition celebrating Rosh-ha-Shana in the Jewish religion and cultures represents a train of the cheerful and joyful festivals passing in various structural divisions and covering various layers of members of the Jewish community. Tone was set, as usual, by youth. New Year's celebratory evening has taken place in Hesed. Irina Soboleva told story about history and traditions.

Also it is one more feature of our holidays – both in pleasure, and in grief we addresses to the sources, we remember, whence, as well as why there was a custom to celebrate this day, what traditions of its carrying out have remained in the Jewish history and religion, what features of a holiday at us in a community.