The most important ritual of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is to hear the call of the shofar — the ram's horn of the Hebrew Bible that is still used today to mark the High Holy Days.

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Beginning this month through mid-October, blaring sounds of the shofar will be heard across the North Shore, as Salem-based Lappin Foundation prepares the community to set a new Guinness World Record ...

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Due to the challenges of joining a traditional synagogue service due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Chabad of the North Shore will hold an outdoor shofar service next ...

To help people celebrate a socially distanced Jewish New Year, there are free courses in Israel teaching how to blow the shofar — the ritual ram or antelope horn. MARTIN: The shofar, a ram or antelope ...

This is the weekend to find out what more than 500 shofars blown in unison sound like. The Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, along with the entire North Shore community and beyond, will attempt ...