The blowing sound of a shofar was heard throughout Brooklyn Sunday night as the borough's Jewish community marked the end of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah. The new year isn't actually called ...
Merrick Fagan is a bass player and bartender, not a rabbi, but during the High Holy Days, he is entrusted with a sacred, God-ordained task. At Rosh Hashanah morning services, he blows a hollowed-out ...
FAIRFIELD — To the sound of the shofar, Fairfield ushered in the Jewish New Year at Riverside Park Thursday. Chabad of Fairfield celebrated Rosh Hashana with a Tashlich service at the park after the ...
Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...