Alan Wagner still pictures it as one of the most stirring religious experiences of his boyhood. Perched on his father’s shoulders in their synagogue in Omaha, Neb., he strained to catch an ...

In preparation for the Jewish new year, children and their families will craft their very own ram’s horn instrument, known as Shofar in Hebrew, at Chabad’s Shofar Factory. Children, with adult ...

With our intentions — and especially our ears — tuned to the month of Elul, we might ask: Who turned up the shofar? For Jews, its soulful sound is not just for High Holy Days anymore, and today, a ...

It’s something they can all celebrate together.” The concept of the shofar is so appealing Chabad representatives took the instrument to area hospitals to toot for Jewish patients in their rooms on ...

“Healing Tones,” a new composition commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, opens with the sound of a ram’s horn or shofar — a traditional Jewish musical instrument. This particular shofar comes ...

With the Jewish New Year on Sept. 15, the Chabad Jewish Student Center held a “Shofar Factory” Wednesday on the Quad in preparation for the holiday. The Chabad Jewish Student Center is an organization ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin from the head of a ram, goat 0r antelope, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow ...

Early emerging cicadas singing their last song this September faced stiff competition from a different type of seasonal sound. Across Chicagoland, Jewish communities took to trails, parks and parking ...

High Holy Days services are fast approaching, and the sounds of the shofar soon will fill sanctuaries throughout Los Angeles. But who are the brave souls standing in front of hundreds of congregants ...

Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation hosted its annual Erev Rosh Hashanah Shofar Walk Wednesday, bringing around 200 people together to celebrate the holiday. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new ...