Originally published in the Forward September 6, 2002. To adapt the famous categorization of Claude Levi-Strauss, if such wind instruments as clarinets and cornets are “cooked,” the shofar is ...
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 ...
Today, synagogues everywhere will echo with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn transformed into a kind of trumpet in a tradition with roots millennia deep. The horn is blown on Rosh Hashanah, which ...