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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael ...

The blowing sound of a shofar was heard throughout Brooklyn Sunday night as the borough's Jewish community marked the end of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah. The new year isn't actually called ...

It produces a powerful trumpet-like sound and plays an important part in the Jewish High Holy Days. The instrument is called a shofar and will be blown at local synagogues as part of the 10-day High ...

Once the sun sets on Wednesday, the two-day observance of Rosh Hashanah is set to begin. Along with being the start of the Jewish new year, a period of atonement and the anniversary of human creation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosh Hashanah, one of Judaism’s High Holidays, will begin its two-day celebration this week. The holiday celebrates “the head of ...

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Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening. “The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram’s ...