With the start of Rosh Hashana at sundown this evening, we welcome a guest post from Leonard Rogoff, author of Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina. Published in association with the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, Down Home is part of a larger documentary project of the same name that includes a film (view the trailer) and a traveling museum exhibition. In this post, Rogoff explains how Jews in North Carolina have maintained--and reshaped--Jewish New Year traditions.--ellen As North Carolina’s Jews observe the High Holidays, beginning with Rosh Hashana (New Year) on the...