Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

-blowing trio that has been “tooting” together for years. is a “hand-me-down” from daughter Marni, who received her current long and twisting horn as bat mitzvah gift. “I learned at age 5,” said Marni ...

Yoni Workman (left) and Marcelo Kuperwasser at the shofar workshop. While every Jew is commanded to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, thankfully we’re not all required to learn how to blow one. But ...

Early emerging cicadas singing their last song this September faced stiff competition from a different type of seasonal sound. Across Chicagoland, Jewish communities took to trails, parks and parking ...

One of the highlights of the High Holy Days is the blowing of the shofar, and the best shofar-blowing I ever heard was by a woman. Her tekiah gedolah was — the long blast sounded at the end of each ...

"Go away!" Gabe, 15, yells at his two younger brothers, having been rudely awakened by a blast of the shofar. Jeremy, 13, the shofar-blower, dives under the adjoining bed. Danny, 11, the instigator, ...

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 ...