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Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

NEW YORK - The ancient sound is a little different every time you hear it, but the blast of the shofar is one that has resonated in the Jewish community for millennia. "It's our alarm clock. It's to ...

Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...

LONDONLONDON — The cacophonous wail of the shofar was loud, mournful and lasted nearly two minutes as dozens of Jews blew on rams’ horns Sunday to wake up others to the plight of the estimated 100 ...

Rav Kook, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, gave a sicha (speech) on Rosh Hashanah 5694 (1933). Standing in the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, he introduced the three ...

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When contemplating the meaning of Rosh Hashanah, I think of my four grandchildren now serving in our army. Two of them, the boys, are in tanks, while the girls are in intelligence units. Whenever 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 ...