Jews around the world will gather in synagogues and homes tonight to usher in the Jewish New Year.
The 10-day High Holiday period, beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – starts today at sundown and rings in the year 5760.
The holiday begins at 6:54 p.m. tonight with the traditional candle-lighting.
During the next 10 days, Jews take stock of themselves and repent for past sins.
“People reflect on the last year and decide what they can do better in the next year,” said Rabbi Joel Goor of the Metropolitan Synagogue in Manhattan.
“Mostly, we go on auto-pilot, and this is the time we recheck our coordinates,” he said.
In Los Angeles, one New Year’s observance will honor a slain Filipino-American letter carrier and the women and children shot last month at the North Hills Jewish Community Center.
Temple Shalom for the Arts, which normally holds monthly services of music and dance at the 2,000-seat Art Deco Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills, will hold its second-day service Sunday at the shooting scene in North Hills.
“I felt we needed to be there to show support for our brothers and sisters as we enter this new year,” Rabbi David Baron told The Post yesterday. “We will be standing united against hatred, in the open, outdoors where it happened.”
The service will end with a memorial prayer dedicated to the letter carrier, Joseph Ileto, who was killed on Aug. 10, allegedly by white supremacist Buford Furrow after Furrow gunned down women and children at the community center.
The only still-hospitalized victim in the attack, 5-year-old Benjamin Kadish, is in good condition at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and will spend at least another week there, a spokesman said yesterday.