The Torah urges us to return to God. One prominent term describes God’s hope that we, the Jewish People, will “lishmo’a b’kolo” (hearken to His voice; Deuteronomy 30:20). The word kol (voice) ...

(RNS) — When is the shofar service? What time are they blowing the shofar? These are the burning questions at most synagogues this time of year as Rosh Hashana approaches. The answers lead temple ...

Eli Ribak blows a shofar at the BarSheshet-Ribak Shofarot factory, in south Tel Aviv, on Sunday. The factory produces about 5,000 shofars a year, half of which are sold ahead of Rosh HaShana. A family ...

Rabbi Beryl Padorr of Congregation Ohev Shalom displays the shofar she uses in the patio outside her first-floor apartment. So far, Padorr says, no neighbors have complained. Rosh Hashannah and Yom ...

On a typical Rosh Hashanah at Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf in Los Angeles, congregants gather around the bimah and place their hands on the wooden podium to feel the vibrations that accompany ...

High Holy Days services are fast approaching, and the sounds of the shofar soon will fill sanctuaries throughout Los Angeles. But who are the brave souls standing in front of hundreds of congregants ...

Davi Cheng had some trepidation when she went to Hillel for the first time. She tried to feel comfortable, but she couldn’t understand the language of the services and the liturgical rituals were ...

Never before has Israel had such a high need for those schooled in the rarefied art of shofar blowing. The wail of the biblical shofar — made from the horn of a ram or a certain antelope species — is ...