After drilling a hole in the end of a severed ram’s horn, Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg held the horn to his mouth and blew, sending a puff of dust out the other side. He used another drill bit to widen the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barry Spinak blows the shofar for the Kol Shalom congregation on Bainbridge Island. The blowing of the horn begins Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. Steve Zugschwerdt / Special to the Kitsap Sun ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues – for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of ...

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 ...

As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, shofars are blown in synagogues daily to mark the run-up to the High Holy Days. But what about yourself? Do you feel the need to toot your own horn?

(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, ...

(JTA) — Schmekel — a transgender Jewish punk band based in Brooklyn — opened its 2011 album with “I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur.” The song features lyrics ...

The procession lasted more than 90 minutes as temperatures dropped and hail gave way to bursts of freezing rain. Marchers, bundled in scarves and gloves, pressed on, walking past security officers who ...