The pews were filled with members of the congregation, and more than a hundred more watched online. Since COVID, this was the biggest in-person crowd at the Ohef Sholom Temple. It was the largest ...

Phil Myzel was a people magnet, the inspiration for a book, ram's horn blower and a self-made man. Myzel, who died Saturday at age 95, was remembered by friends as "always upbeat, always happy," as ...

To help people celebrate a socially distanced Jewish New Year, there are free courses in Israel teaching how to blow the shofar — the ritual ram... Why More Shofar Blowers Are Needed To Celebrate ...

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 ...

Left to right: Shofar blower Joe Baum, Temple Sinai Rabbi Adam Wohlberg, Mimi Travis, Phyllis Halpern and Cantor Sharon Brown-Levy visited Ann’s Choice in Bucks County on Aug. 12 for a welcoming of ...

Never before has Israel had such a high need for those schooled in the rarefied art of shofar blowing. The wail of the biblical shofar — made from the horn of a ram or a certain antelope species — is ...

(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 ...

The sun came out on Sunday for the 5 p.m. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Erev Rosh Hashanah Shofar Walk on Sept. 25 at Dawes Park in Evanston. The one mile walk included more than 300 people ...