Yoni Workman (left) and Marcelo Kuperwasser at the shofar workshop. While every Jew is commanded to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, thankfully we’re not all required to learn how to blow one. But ...

One of the highlights of the High Holy Days is the blowing of the shofar, and the best shofar-blowing I ever heard was by a woman. Her tekiah gedolah was — the long blast sounded at the end of each ...

-blowing trio that has been “tooting” together for years. is a “hand-me-down” from daughter Marni, who received her current long and twisting horn as bat mitzvah gift. “I learned at age 5,” said Marni ...

Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

(RNS) The blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn that rouses the soul on the Jewish New Year, has traditionally been assigned to an august member of a synagogue. But the art of shofar blowing is now ...

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 ...

For Janise Poticha, unable to be near her sister ill with COVID, the ritual became a symbol of life with biblical meaning. And she’s not sure when it will end. (JTA) — Rabbi Janise Poticha had been ...

A few days before Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), cars lined up at the parking lot of Temple Beth Am in Margate as people heard a familiar High Holidays sound: the blowing of the shofar. Rabbi Samuel ...

LONDONLONDON — The cacophonous wail of the shofar was loud, mournful and lasted nearly two minutes as dozens of Jews blew on rams’ horns Sunday to wake up others to the plight of the estimated 100 ...

It sounds very dramatic to say that a rabbi was arrested for blowing shofar. And all the more dramatic when you add that this happened not in Paris or London or Chicago, but in Jerusalem, only a few ...