Rabbi Arthur Waskow offers some reasons why the shofar is not blown on Shabbat. The most obvious is the halakhic conundrum of carrying. We are not supposed to carry the shofar from home to the ...

Rabbi Dov Lior clarified that sounding shofar and taking lulav on Shabbat which falls on Rosh Hashana or Sukkot, respectively, is also forbidden on the Temple Mount, even though in Temple times both ...

When Rosh HaShana fell on Shabbat, the shofar was sounded only in Jerusalem. After the Temple was destroyed, Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai ordained that it could be sounded wherever there was a court ...

Every holiday has its symbol: Hanukkah we associate with the menorah, Passover we associate with matzah, and as Tevyeh aptly puts it in “Fiddler on the Roof,” “it’s tradition.” Ask any Jew from Israel ...

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Rabbi Bitan blows the shofar on his rooftop in TunisiaHezki Baruch For fifty years, every Friday just before sunset, Tunisia's Chief Rabbi Haim Bitan has climbed onto the roof of his home, overlooking ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The following is a roundup of Jewish events taking place on Staten Island. For more information on upcoming Jewish community events, Shabbat services and Torah classes, visit ...

On a blackboard below a bronze crucifix, Rabbi Laurence Edwards wrote out some basic vocabulary words and then tried to help the class pronounce them: kosher, shofar, Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah.

On a recent morning walk in the neighborhood, my wife and I approached a street corner where about a dozen people seemed to be waiting for someone. We were mildly curious but kept walking. Just after ...

In a year of sustainability and carbon footprints, high gas and hybrids, the shofar is the simplest, most eco-friendly method of reaching the Jewish community with a vital message. LOS ANGELES (JTA) – ...