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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the opening of its High Holidays, heralds a time for reflection and renewal. But it ushers the season in with the most jolting introduction it can get: The ...
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 ...
Yoni Workman (left) and Marcelo Kuperwasser at the shofar workshop. While every Jew is commanded to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, thankfully we’re not all required to learn how to blow one. But ...
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 ...
There are some Jewish holidays where the feminine aspect is front and center, as on Passover, which counts women are pivotal characters and when we remember coming through “the narrow place” in our ...
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