In a normal year, congregants at Chabad Jewish Center, 400 families in all, would fill the synagogue in Glastonbury on Rosh Hashanah. The worship service would last for hours. Then the families would ...

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 ...

Alan Wagner still pictures it as one of the most stirring religious experiences of his boyhood. Perched on his father’s shoulders in their synagogue in Omaha, Neb., he strained to catch an ...

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 ...

"The shofar’s call tears through our silence. It stands as a symbol of spiritual resistance and a means of maintaining our Jewish identity." A faded photo captures the power of the shofar sounded by a ...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Whether it was playing the keys, the strings or picking up a horn, a lot of us have tried our hand at playing a musical instrument at one time or another. In Nashville, a ...

Because of Rabbi Elazar’s great holiness, the fulfillment of the mitzvah resulted in the storm passing, and they were all saved in his merit. On Rosh Hashanah we sound the shofar during the day and ...

Health Ministry: Only those with vaccine booster should blow shofar in synagogue In prayer guidelines for Rosh Hashanah, health experts urge shofar blower to aim the opening away from congregants and ...

Never before has Israel had such a high need for those schooled in the rarefied art of shofar blowing. The wail of the biblical shofar — made from the horn of a ram or a certain antelope species — is ...

Through its network of volunteers, 250 shofar blowers will provide their services in cities, moshavim and kibbutzim and an additional 300 people will lead holiday services. Tzohar arranged for the ...