NEWS
Rosh Hashana Gives Israelis Cause to Hope
By PETER HERMANN | Sep. 6, 2002JERUSALEM--Cheryl Matthews is deeply committed to her faith. But in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Friday at sundown, she began a prayer group to make her feel even closer to God.Yisrael Stefansky is giving more thought and more time to reading the psalms of the Hebrew Bible.


