This year, the shofar, with its eerie, piercing and surreal sounds, awakens us to a world of continued sadness, fear and seemingly irreconcilable conflict. To the knowledge that no matter how much we ...

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Being little more than a husk of keratin hacked off the head of a ram, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow horn, the ...

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Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Teruah, the day of the sounding of the horn. But what instrument fulfills this mitzvah? The Torah itself does not specify, entrusting the Oral Torah (Torah she’ba‘al peh) ...

Whether they are Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist or Reform, whether they gather on a California beach or in a New York City synagogue, Jews share at least one common element at their Rosh ...

The CEO of Shofar Music has released an official apology after being charged with assault in February. The CEO posted his apology on the agency’s official website and wrote, “Instead of blaming this ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Next week the Jewish High Holidays begin. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts Wednesday night (September 12) leading to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, nine days later ...