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 ...

(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 ...

Today, synagogues everywhere will echo with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn transformed into a kind of trumpet in a tradition with roots millennia deep. The horn is blown on Rosh Hashanah, which ...