Known as 'The Days of Awe,' Judaism's High Holidays -- which begin on Wednesday evening -- annually provide an emotional mix of celebration, introspection and atonement for Jews around the world. This year, for many, the emotions will be extraordinarily powerful, given that the midpoint of the 10 days spanning Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is October 7 -- the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terror group's attack on southern Israel, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, starting an ongoing war. For Jews in the US -- the world's second-largest Jewish community after Israel -- the past 12 months have been challenging in many ways linked to October 7.