As I get ready for Rosh Hashanah, so many memories rush into my mind. I remember my early childhood in Hungary. When the shofar was blown on Rosh Hashanah we stood at attention. None of the children – ...
No matter how many times I’ve heard it, the blast of the shofar startles me. It cuts through the synagogue, through the chatter in my mind, through the weight I’m carrying from the past year. In that ...
Is green the theme of the shofar this Rosh Hashanah season? In a year of sustainability and carbon footprints, high gas and hybrids, the shofar is the simplest, most eco-friendly method of reaching ...
Hearing the shofar [ram’s horn] sounded on Rosh Hashana is the quintessential New Year ritual. People come to synagogue on the New Year to hear a shofar master sound the alert sequence just as it was ...
Columnist Edmon J. Rodman sees firsthand the impact of his wife’s shofar blowing on a road trip around L.A. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — In preparation for the High Holidays last year, my community sent its ...
Eli Ribak blows a shofar at the BarSheshet-Ribak Shofarot factory, in south Tel Aviv, on Sunday. The factory produces about 5,000 shofars a year, half of which are sold ahead of Rosh HaShana. A family ...
Merrick Fagan is a bass player and bartender, not a rabbi, but during the High Holy Days, he is entrusted with a sacred, God-ordained task. At Rosh Hashanah morning services, he blows a hollowed-out ...
This year the sounds of the shofar are already landing differently for me. Unlike in years past, when the shofar’s blasts roused my soul as an atavistic war trumpet, I am now hearing this annual ...
The pews were filled with members of the congregation, and more than a hundred more watched online. Since COVID, this was the biggest in-person crowd at the Ohef Sholom Temple. It was the largest ...
Blowing shofar at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley daily for the month of Elul and for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Cooper is used to the feeling of clenching his shoulders and neck muscles, having ...
At a time when some people just can't make it to synagogue, rabbis are taking the shofar (the hollowed out ram's horn once used to call Jews together) to the old and the young. Rosh Hashanah begins at ...
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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