"Go away!" Gabe, 15, yells at his two younger brothers, having been rudely awakened by a blast of the shofar. Jeremy, 13, the shofar-blower, dives under the adjoining bed. Danny, 11, the instigator, ...

Early emerging cicadas singing their last song this September faced stiff competition from a different type of seasonal sound. Across Chicagoland, Jewish communities took to trails, parks and parking ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

Yoni Workman (left) and Marcelo Kuperwasser at the shofar workshop. While every Jew is commanded to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, thankfully we’re not all required to learn how to blow one. But ...

The blowing of the ram’s horn, a core practice associated with the upcoming Jewish new year, is considered a risk for spreading the coronavirus. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The shofar should only be blown ...