FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...

(The Conversation) — The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High Holidays: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (The Conversation ...

Merrick Fagan is a bass player and bartender, not a rabbi, but during the High Holy Days, he is entrusted with a sacred, God-ordained task. At Rosh Hashanah morning services, he blows a hollowed-out ...

On a recent morning walk in the neighborhood, my wife and I approached a street corner where about a dozen people seemed to be waiting for someone. We were mildly curious but kept walking. Just after ...

With campuses reopening and the Jewish High Holidays approaching, Jewish students must recognize that Rosh Hashanah is more than a date on the academic calendar. It is a holy day that embodies ...

The approach of Rosh Hashanah always takes me back in memory to my bar mitzvah, which took place on Shabbat Shuvah — the Sabbath of Repentance that comes between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two ...

Barry Spinak blows the shofar for the Kol Shalom congregation on Bainbridge Island. The blowing of the horn begins Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. Steve Zugschwerdt / Special to the Kitsap Sun ...

Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel sounded the shofar Sunday, the final day of Rosh Hashanah, as he stood on a grassy stretch of Edwin Warner Park. More than 50 people made a loose circle around him as the ...

More than 1,000 shofar blowers set world record in Whippany More than 1,000 horns created a joyful cacophony on Sunday during the Great Shofar Blowout at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community ...