Alan Wagner still pictures it as one of the most stirring religious experiences of his boyhood. Perched on his father’s shoulders in their synagogue in Omaha, Neb., he strained to catch an ...

In preparation for the Jewish new year, children and their families will craft their very own ram’s horn instrument, known as Shofar in Hebrew, at Chabad’s Shofar Factory. Children, with adult ...

Chabad of the Lehigh Valley turned the ancient art of shofar-making into child’s play Sunday, giving children an opportunity to saw, sand and shellac the horns of the High Holidays. With goggles ...

With our intentions — and especially our ears — tuned to the month of Elul, we might ask: Who turned up the shofar? For Jews, its soulful sound is not just for High Holy Days anymore, and today, a ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin from the head of a ram, goat 0r antelope, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow ...

With the Jewish New Year on Sept. 15, the Chabad Jewish Student Center held a “Shofar Factory” Wednesday on the Quad in preparation for the holiday. The Chabad Jewish Student Center is an organization ...

It’s been described as the symbolic voice of God. You can hear it trumpeting across Israel and Jewish communities everywhere during the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which begins at sundown on ...

Rosh Hashanah will soon be upon us. Although there is a special lengthy prayer service for Rosh Hashana, the central observance of the holiday is the blowing of the shofar. Because of the significance ...

High Holy Days services are fast approaching, and the sounds of the shofar soon will fill sanctuaries throughout Los Angeles. But who are the brave souls standing in front of hundreds of congregants ...

Georgians are used to plenty of hot air from the denizens of the Gold Dome. But Rabbi Larry Sernovitz gave a new meaning to tooting his own horn during his visit this week to the Georgia Legislature.