It was Erev Rosh Hashana in Auschwitz and Birkenau. 1944. Rav Tzvi Hirsch Meisels and his son just arrived to the death camp. Somehow, the Rav smuggled a shofar into the barracks. His son begged him ...

With campuses reopening and the Jewish High Holidays approaching, Jewish students must recognize that Rosh Hashanah is more than a date on the academic calendar. It is a holy day that embodies ...

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 shofar. An ...

The Association of Religious Communities will sponsor its annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Monday, Nov. 24, at the United Methodist Church on Clapboard Ridge from 7 to 8 p.m. We hope many people ...

For my wife, when the blast of the shofar cuts through everything else, that ancient sound isn’t just a religious ritual — it’s a reigniting of who she is as a Jewish person. It’s more than ceremony; ...

My favorite moment of the High Holidays is the final blast of the shofar–not just the sound, but seeing the intense emotions it sparks in both the congregation and the people performing the ritual. I ...

(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 ...