Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on September 28.

Left to right, Barbara Levine, Helen Sharfstein and Marianne Nieman, residents of Sunrise at Huntcliff Summit in Sandy Springs, select honey cakes, symbolizing hopes for a “sweet” new year, after a holiday program lead by Rabbi Analia Bortz.

Rabbi Ari Karp helps Levi Linowes, right, a first grader at Greenfield Hebrew Academy in Sandy Springs, with making a shofar, a wind instrument blown on the holiday, as teacher Gail Skolsky looks on.