Because of Rabbi Elazar’s great holiness, the fulfillment of the mitzvah resulted in the storm passing, and they were all saved in his merit. On Rosh Hashanah we sound the shofar during the day and ...
Growing up in White Meadow Lake during the 1960's, Eric Freedman had an unspectacular career at Hebrew school. He recalls daydreaming about basketball during classes and making the occasional ...
This weekend, don’t be alarmed if you hear trumpeting in the streets. You could be witnessing the sound of a horn steeped in thousands of years of Jewish tradition. The shofar is coming outside for ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael ...
(JTA) — Now that it’s Elul, the month that precedes Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is filling with the sounds of the shofar. But what about Sea World? A viral video combining the call of sea lions ...
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Next week the Jewish High Holidays begin. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts Wednesday night (September 12) leading to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, nine days later ...
With all the various shofars that are kosher on display, one can be blown away, and it’s a pretty sweet way to kick off the new year. Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin has been long known in local circles as ...
Of all the commandments in the Torah, the blowing of the shofar on the Jewish New Year is one of the most important. The ancient sound — signaling the beginning of the days of repentance — is heard on ...
There's no way around it: The sound filling the sanctuary of Congregation Ner Tamid resembles the pained bleating of a herd of water buffalo after a lunch of profoundly questionable burritos. Yet, a ...
For Janise Poticha, unable to be near her sister ill with COVID, the ritual became a symbol of life with biblical meaning. And she’s not sure when it will end. (JTA) — Rabbi Janise Poticha had been ...
(THE CONVERSATION) It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues – for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of ...
(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 ...