Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...

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 ...

The COVID years have been especially difficult during the High Holy Days. In many parts of the world, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have seen synagogues locked and their congregants under lockdown, ...

(RNS) — When is the shofar service? What time are they blowing the shofar? These are the burning questions at most synagogues this time of year as Rosh Hashana approaches. The answers lead temple ...

With all the various shofars that are kosher on display, one can be blown away, and it’s a pretty sweet way to kick off the new year. Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin has been long known in local circles as ...

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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Reverend Danny Flick of Rock the House Ministries recently shared plans with The Cordele Dispatch for a Bible reading marathon. The marathon will be […] ...

(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 ...