CLOSE YOUR eyes for a moment and try to visualize a single object that encapsulates Judaism for you. Now, what did you see? A Star of David? It is hard to imagine a synagogue without one, and the ...

In front of Ahavas Chesed Synagogue in west Mobile, there is a 16-foot-long sculpture of a shofar — the ram’s horn blown in Biblical times like to herald the new moon or a jubilee year, among other ...

Answer: Well, I don’t want to toot the shofar’s horn too much, James, but it really is pretty special. Allow me to explain. In your question you asked about why we don’t use a real trumpet, and I ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The setting is Mount Sinai. It is now three months since the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt. There are intense discussions between the Lord and Moses. He reminded them how He ...

In the Torah, (the Five Books of Moses) the Hebrews are given a commandment that on the first day of the seventh month (Tishrei) of the Hebrew calendar “you shall observe complete rest, a sacred ...

New York’s oldest synagogue reopened to the sound of shofars yesterday, more than three years after it was gutted by a devastating fire. “For me, it’s a microcosm of the destiny of the Jewish people,” ...

Ten-year-old Lindsay Rosichan held the shofar to her lips and blew. From the hollowed ram’s horn came a squeak that grew into a long, low, fog horn-style note of the kind that signals the start of ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - Southern California's Jewish community is set to ring in the Jewish New Year with a new twist on an ancient tradition. On Sunday, Sept. 20, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los ...