Rabbi Levi Raskin works at making a shofar during “The Shofar Factory,” an event put on by Chabad Lubavitch, of Frederick. Children and their families constructed their own ram’s horn instruments ...

Rosh Hashanah might be a little louder than normal this year in Santa Fe. About a dozen kids made their own shofars Wednesday out of sheep horns and then got right to work practicing blowing the horns ...

Two kinds of horns mentioned in the Hebrew bible. One, a metal trumpet, is described in great detail. The description of the other, the shofar, is, shall we say, limited? Guess which one has survived ...

Can't make it to services but want to fulfill the commandment to hear the shofar? Call Rabbi Yossie Shemtov at 882-9422 to see if a volunteer might be able to help. Interested in learning how to make ...

The main mitzvah of Rosh Hashana is the blowing of the shofar, which is a call for the repentance of the Jewish People, to assure a good year filled with Hashem’s blessings. During World War II, the ...

(The Conversation) — The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High Holidays: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (The Conversation ...