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Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening. “The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram’s ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — In Jewish congregations around the world, Rosh Hashana will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 23. This year, at Congregation Agudas Achim, the annual High Holy Day new year’s ...

My son came home from school one afternoon and asked if he could bring his shofar (the ram’s horn blown on Rosh Hashanah) to class. I was moved by the request and grateful that his teacher graciously ...

Rav Kook, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, gave a sicha (speech) on Rosh Hashanah 5694 (1933). Standing in the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, he introduced the three ...

Rosh Hashanah is almost here…but it's not the "Jewish" New Year! It's Adam's birthday, and the most significant day of the year, "New Years Day" for the whole world...the time of judgment for all his ...

(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 ...

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At sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, Jews around the world will gather to mark Rosh Hashanah — the birthday of creation, the day on which we acknowledge our past and pray for our future. This year, as we ...

Sometimes awakening doesn’t come with thunder. It comes with an ancient sound — quiet, simple, and pure. A sound that touches the soul. That sound is the shofar. Every day of the month of Elul, except ...