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 ...

(JTA) — Schmekel — a transgender Jewish punk band based in Brooklyn — opened its 2011 album with “I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur.” The song features lyrics ...

In preparation for the Jewish new year, children and their families will craft their very own ram’s horn instrument, known as Shofar in Hebrew, at Chabad’s Shofar Factory. Children, with adult ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin from the head of a ram, goat 0r antelope, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow ...

"And the voice of the shofar sounded long and waxed louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice." — Exodus 19:19 God speaks to us in many ways but rarely does anyone these days ...

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 ...

Since I was a boy, my musical heroes have been jazz musicians — Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, John Coltrane. My own trumpet playing was good enough to get me the solo chair in the school ...

When Chabad of Naples brought in a visiting rabbi to conduct a “shofar factory” at their campus in the Moorings, he had some serious information to impart. The shofar, the ram’s horn turned into a ...