(JTA) — Rabbi Matt Soffer was leaving his synagogue on Friday evening after leading Rosh Hashanah services alone for a congregation following along online when the text came from his wife: Ruth Bader ...

Rabbi Ariel Stone stood at the protest with a gas mask hanging around her neck, a megaphone in one hand and a shofar in the other. Gathering with the Portland Clergy Interfaith Resistance on Sunday, ...

Rabbi Ari Goldstein and staff at Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold have spent months planning for Rosh Hashana on Friday and the 10 days of repentance leading to Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Around ...

Hearing the shofar [ram’s horn] sounded on Rosh Hashana is the quintessential New Year ritual. People come to synagogue on the New Year to hear a shofar master sound the alert sequence just as it was ...

The air will be filled Tuesday morning with the ancient, timeless bleating of the shofar, the twisted ram’s horn that trumpets Rosh Hashana, which starts tonight at sundown. This Jewish New Year -- ...

Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l, circa 1990’s. Streams of congregants, unbelievable as it sounds today, flocked to shul on Shabbatot simply to hear the sermons of Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l. They remain ...

My son came home from school one afternoon and asked if he could bring his shofar (the ram’s horn blown on Rosh Hashanah) to class. I was moved by the request and grateful that his teacher graciously ...

Michael Farbman let rip from a goat’s horn to awaken us to the brokenness of our world and inspire us to work toward healing it. Farbman, the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven, blew the ...