Yom Teruah Friday Night

Yom Teruah will begin at sunset on September 26, 2014

It's official! Yom Teruah is Friday night! Observers from across Israel reported in that the moon was not visible on Thursday September 25, 2014. One pair of observers took a great photo of an aircraft (or possibly a cloud) on the horizon, but no one saw the moon. At the top of this message is the photo of the airplane/ cloud as seen from Poriyya Illit with a blow-up of the object in the upper left corner. The moon itself was not visible to any of the observers who reported in.

My thanks to all the observers who so diligently looked for the moon and for the folks in Poriyya Illit for so meticulously documenting their attempted sighting with photos! Special thanks to Yoel Halevi, Devorah Gordon, Devorah Levine, Willie Ondricek, Tzvi ben Daniel, David Cachicas, Rebekah Bibb, Kenny Russell, Hayley Russell, and many others who looked for the new moon tonight!