To celebrate Rosh Hashanah we invited our past Israel Study Tour participants together to ask them what they know of the holiday and then asked them to help us sound the shofar and wish you all Chag Sameach. Seven brave souls took us up on the offer. Enormous thanks to our interviewees for their grace, good humor, charm and spirit of generosity. Together we make the world a better and brighter place. Happy Rosh Hashanah! Interviewees: Gwyneth Borden, Executive Director, Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and Member, SFMTA Board of Directors (Israel 2008) Carmen Chu, Assessor-Recorder and Former Supervisor, City and County of San Francisco (Israel 2012) Michael Cohen, Director, State of California Department of Finance (Israel 2016) Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., President, University of San Francisco (Israel 2016) James Loduca, Senior Vice President, San Francisco AIDS Foundation (Israel 2016) Shamann Walton, Vice President, San Francisco Board of Education (Israel 2016) Shawn Whalen, Senior Program Officer, College Futures Foundation (Israel 2015