This year, the shofar, with its eerie, piercing and surreal sounds, awakens us to a world of continued sadness, fear and seemingly irreconcilable conflict. To the knowledge that no matter how much we ...

Of all the commandments in the Torah, the blowing of the shofar on the Jewish New Year is one of the most important. The ancient sound — signaling the beginning of the days of repentance — is heard on ...

Klezmer, they’re not. The three members of Warsaw, Poland’s Shofar take their cue from the Hasidic melodies of Eastern Europe’s Jewish population, but they don’t play for dancers, and there’s little ...

And there are plans to record a full album of short pieces, written for the shofar. But, for now, Zemach’s sights are set on a more significant project, which should do much to help cement the place ...

The message of the Shofar encapsulates three themes: God's universality, human accountability and our particular Jewish individuality. On Rosh Hashana we trumpet the manifesto of Jewish meaning. "On ...

Being little more than a husk of keratin hacked off the head of a ram, the shofar is not a very versatile instrument. Because there’s no real mechanism to alter pitch within the hollow horn, the ...

The CEO of Shofar Music has released an official apology after being charged with assault in February. The CEO posted his apology on the agency’s official website and wrote, “Instead of blaming this ...

BOL4’s agency will be taking legal action against malicious commenters and rumors. On May 19, Shofar Music released an official statement regarding this behaviour and their plans moving forward. Read ...

When I was just 1-year-old, my grandpa handed me a shofar and said, “Max, this is a shofar.” Although I cannot recall that exact moment, the shofar has been integral to my life ever since. It serves ...

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 ...

A New Year has never looked so welcome to us, burdened with the woes of a 2020 pandemic summer. That's why Temple Shalom is offering to share the Jewish New Year with Southwest Florida in one of its ...