FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the opening of its High Holidays, heralds a time for reflection and renewal. But it ushers the season in with the most jolting introduction it can get: The ...

Wednesday night marks the start of Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish New Year. The holiday is filled with tradition, but the sounding of the shofar is perhaps its most unique custom. Each year, volunteers ...

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 ...

As he sounds the shofar each year, Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel thinks about the name of each person attending Chabad of Nashville's Rosh Hashanah prayer service. "I go around to every single person in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Due to the challenges of joining a traditional synagogue service due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Chabad of the North Shore will hold an outdoor shofar service next ...

Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel sounded the shofar Sunday, the final day of Rosh Hashanah, as he stood on a grassy stretch of Edwin Warner Park. More than 50 people made a loose circle around him as the ...

After a brief explanation of the different notes of the Shofar, Rabbi Shneur Itzinger lifted the horn to his mouth and broke through the roar of the nearby waterfall with a long blast. This was ...