FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...

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As he sounds the shofar each year, Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel thinks about the name of each person attending Chabad of Nashville's Rosh Hashanah prayer service. "I go around to every single person in the ...

The sun came out on Sunday for the 5 p.m. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Erev Rosh Hashanah Shofar Walk on Sept. 25 at Dawes Park in Evanston. The one mile walk included more than 300 people ...

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 ...

Trumpet player Bruce Shapiro is the ideal person to perform the Rosh Hashana ritual of blowing the shofar – an ancient musical instrument that marks the beginning of the new year. “The whole idea of ...

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- Sunday marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish holiday more commonly known as the Jewish New Year. The two-day holiday is also the start of the Jewish High Holy Days, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Due to the challenges of joining a traditional synagogue service due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Chabad of the North Shore will hold an outdoor shofar service next ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It wasn’t long before Salvador “Sal” Litvak realized a fact of life: You can’t just walk through security at Downtown Disney with a ram’s horn slung over ...