In front of Ahavas Chesed Synagogue in west Mobile, there is a 16-foot-long sculpture of a shofar — the ram’s horn blown in Biblical times like to herald the new moon or a jubilee year, among other ...

Traditionally during Judaism’s High Holidays, the sound of a ram’s horn, or shofar, is heard in Jewish homes and houses of worship. Leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the Chabad Jewish ...

It wasn’t long before Salvador “Sal” Litvak realized a fact of life: You can’t just walk through security at Downtown Disney with a ram’s horn slung over your shoulder. “What’s that sir?” “It’s a ...

When Joseph Kaltmann blows a ram’s horn called a shofar, the trumpetlike sound is booming, piercing, just “really loud,” according to his son, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of New Albany. The vigor with which ...

Originally published in the Forward September 6, 2002. To adapt the famous categorization of Claude Levi-Strauss, if such wind instruments as clarinets and cornets are “cooked,” the shofar is ...

Ten-year-old Lindsay Rosichan held the shofar to her lips and blew. From the hollowed ram’s horn came a squeak that grew into a long, low, fog horn-style note of the kind that signals the start of ...

Early Sunday morning, when the ram’s horn shofar sounds the quaking cry of alarm and awakening, observant Jews everywhere begin a period of introspection and repentance that climaxes with Rosh Hashana ...

Rabbi Ariel Stone stood at the protest with a gas mask hanging around her neck, a megaphone in one hand and a shofar in the other. Gathering with the Portland Clergy Interfaith Resistance on Sunday, ...

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