Merrick Fagan is a bass player and bartender, not a rabbi, but during the High Holy Days, he is entrusted with a sacred, God-ordained task. At Rosh Hashanah morning services, he blows a hollowed-out ...
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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