A few days before Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), cars lined up at the parking lot of Temple Beth Am in Margate as people heard a familiar High Holidays sound: the blowing of the shofar. Rabbi Samuel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Blowing shofar at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley daily for the month of Elul and for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Cooper is used to the feeling of clenching his shoulders and neck muscles, having ...

On Sunday afternoon at the busy intersection of Pico Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, Temple Beth Am congregant Sandra Lepson was among those who’d turned out to hear the shofar in a public space ...

With Years of Experience Organizing Outdoor Shofar Services, Chabad Has Adapted its Model for the Jewish New Year of 5781 with COVID-19. With the High Holidays approaching and COVID-19 creating ...

(JTA) – When Passover arrived just a few weeks after the pandemic set in earlier this year, it was clear that seders with families and friends would not be happening. Six months later, as Jews across ...

(RNS) — ‘Abortion justice is a Jewish value,’ said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. WASHINGTON (RNS) — Blowing shofars, traditional Jewish instruments made from a ram’s horn, a group of ...

The Shofar was sounded yesterday, on Yom Kippur, at the “Wailing Wall in Old Jerusalem for the first time in more than a decade. The sound was clearly heard by several hundred worshippers at the Mt.