Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Torah urges us to return to God. One prominent term describes God’s hope that we, the Jewish People, will “lishmo’a b’kolo” (hearken to His voice; Deuteronomy 30:20). The word kol (voice) ...

It was Erev Rosh Hashana in Auschwitz and Birkenau. 1944. Rav Tzvi Hirsch Meisels and his son just arrived to the death camp. Somehow, the Rav smuggled a shofar into the barracks. His son begged him ...

A plastic orange juice bottle, an empty paper towel roll and a tiny clay pot were meticulously glued together. To make it sparkle, splashes of purple, green, blue and gold paint were added. Then, like ...

(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 ...