Some of the thousands of horns lying around the Kol Shofar factory in the Golan Heights on Sept. 6. Photo by Andrew Tobin Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to ...

Yossi Mizrachi stood in front of a class of second-graders at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy with a dark, ridged, 4-foot-long buffalo horn in his hand. "Can we use this for a shofar?" he asked the ...

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 ...

It is the trumpeting sound that welcomes the Jewish New Year, the whining cry that marks the somber Day of Atonement. The shofar is the sound most associated with the Jewish religion, and it ties the ...

Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

With the Jewish New Year on Sept. 15, the Chabad Jewish Student Center held a “Shofar Factory” Wednesday on the Quad in preparation for the holiday. The Chabad Jewish Student Center is an organization ...

(JTA) — Schmekel — a transgender Jewish punk band based in Brooklyn — opened its 2011 album with “I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur.” The song features lyrics ...