NEW YORK — Rosh Hashanah is supposed to be a celebration of the new year, but the pain of the past year is palpable for many Jews.
CBS News New York’s Lisa Rozner shows us how Jews are leaning on each other for strength nearly one year after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel .
“We still believe that there’s goodness in the world”
The table is set at the home of Rabbi Mark Wildes of the Manhattan Jewish Experience Congregation on the Upper West Side. The sweetness of a new year , apples and honey adorn the center, with a customary round challah marking the cycle of life.
Wildes acknowledges it’s a tough year with October 7 being the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but that Israel defending itself is something to be acknowledged…