Shofar blowing is particularly important on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which begins on Sunday night (Sept. 16). One tradition calls for the congregation to hear 100 blasts of the hard-to ...

The shofar is a musical horn, typically made of a ram's horn. It is perhaps the oldest and most primitive wind instrument, and its sound is simple and plaintive.

Rabbi Aaron Potek has been getting ready for weeks now, rising each morning to sound his shofar, a hollowed-out ram’s horn used to usher in Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Mostly, he ...