(RNS) — Jewish law requires that the shofar be heard in person. But with synagogues shuttered because of the coronavirus, many Jews are dusting off old ritual objects and taking online lessons so they ...

With the High Holidays fast approaching, Jewish congregations and communities are rethinking how to fulfill the commandment of hearing the shofar blown at a time when the COVID-19 crisis has scattered ...

(RNS) — When is the shofar service? What time are they blowing the shofar? These are the burning questions at most synagogues this time of year as Rosh Hashana approaches. The answers lead temple ...

Never before has Israel had such a high need for those schooled in the rarefied art of shofar blowing. The wail of the biblical shofar — made from the horn of a ram or a certain antelope species — is ...