Originally published in the Forward September 6, 2002. To adapt the famous categorization of Claude Levi-Strauss, if such wind instruments as clarinets and cornets are “cooked,” the shofar is ...

In front of Ahavas Chesed Synagogue in west Mobile, there is a 16-foot-long sculpture of a shofar — the ram’s horn blown in Biblical times like to herald the new moon or a jubilee year, among other ...

Today, synagogues everywhere will echo with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn transformed into a kind of trumpet in a tradition with roots millennia deep. The horn is blown on Rosh Hashanah, which ...

Traditionally during Judaism’s High Holidays, the sound of a ram’s horn, or shofar, is heard in Jewish homes and houses of worship. Leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the Chabad Jewish ...