As Rosh Hashanah kicks off with a tekiah, see photos of the holiday's undisputed star—the ram’s horn blown to usher in the Jewish new year. L’Shana Tova! Mazel tov, it’s shofar season! If you’re new ...

GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to blow the shofar. But if you come all the way to his Kol Shofar factory here, Keinan is ...

Some of the thousands of horns lying around the Kol Shofar factory in the Golan Heights on Sept. 6. Photo by Andrew Tobin Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to ...

Shofars: made from kudu or ram’s horn, natural in textured body or polished and refined, dark brown or beautiful in light brown color strokes, hand-painted or adorned with silver plates, the Shofar ...

(JTA) GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to blow the shofar. But if you come all the way to his Kol Shofar factory here, ...

The Health Ministry on Thursday issued guidelines for shofar-blowing over the High Holidays, urging precautions to prevent the ceremonial ram’s horn from becoming an instrument for spreading the ...

Growing up in White Meadow Lake during the 1960's, Eric Freedman had an unspectacular career at Hebrew school. He recalls daydreaming about basketball during classes and making the occasional ...

At 5 p.m. on September 18, don’t be alarmed if you hear a long, low blast of sound resembling a French horn blaring across the D.C. region. It’s the sound of potentially hundreds of shofars — a ram’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

Shimon Keinan has had a lifelong passion for shofars. And somewhere in his factory in Israel's Golan Heights, there's the perfect one for you. GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a ...