Rabbi Arthur Waskow offers some reasons why the shofar is not blown on Shabbat. The most obvious is the halakhic conundrum of carrying. We are not supposed to carry the shofar from home to the ...

Every holiday has its symbol: Hanukkah we associate with the menorah, Passover we associate with matzah, and as Tevyeh aptly puts it in “Fiddler on the Roof,” “it’s tradition.” Ask any Jew from Israel ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The following is a roundup of Jewish events taking place on Staten Island. For more information on upcoming Jewish community events, Shabbat services and Torah classes, visit ...

Musical Shabbat morning service: is at 9:30 a.m. at Congregation Kol Shofar, 215 Blackfield Drive, Tiburon. Call 415-388-1818, extension 100, or go kolshofar.org. Shabbat services: are at 9:30 a.m. at ...

On a blackboard below a bronze crucifix, Rabbi Laurence Edwards wrote out some basic vocabulary words and then tried to help the class pronounce them: kosher, shofar, Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah.

Some poskim (Jewish law arbiters) say it is a mitzvah to rejoice on Rosh Hashanah as we do on all holidays, by serving elegant meals and wearing the finest clothes (Yere'im, Maharil). Hence, Rosh ...

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Rabbi Aaron Potek has been getting ready for weeks now, rising each morning to sound his shofar, a hollowed-out ram’s horn used to usher in Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Mostly, he performs the ...