KINGSTON, N.Y. — In Jewish congregations around the world, Rosh Hashana will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 23. This year, at Congregation Agudas Achim, the annual High Holy Day new year’s ...

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DAVENPORT -- Politicians have been blowing their own horns long enough lately. Time to make and blow your own, said Rabbi Shneur Cadaner, of the Chabad Lubavitch Center of the Quad Cities. He invites ...

When contemplating the meaning of Rosh Hashanah, I think of my four grandchildren now serving in our army. Two of them, the boys, are in tanks, while the girls are in intelligence units. Whenever I ...

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Rabbi Zvi Perlman teaches Avi Rizel, 7, to blow a shofar during a class at the Jewish Community Center in Wilkes-Barre, Wednesday. A shofar is a horn, typically from a ram, traditionally blown during ...

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 ...

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Rabbi Shmuel Kravitsky of Chabad of Northampton, talks with Carrie Roche on Main Street Northampton as part of his outreach encouraging prayer, belief in god, goodness, and offering a place to spend ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Just a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, Tuesday, Iran fired around 2,000 ballistic missiles in retaliation for the killings of the Hezbollah leader and Hamas political chief.

Why right wing Christian politicians are blowing the shofar: The tekiah you’re used to hearing on Rosh Hashanah was recently blasted at a far-right rally in a Virginia megachurch. A Christian ...

CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio -- Sunday marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish holiday more commonly known as the Jewish New Year. The two-day holiday is also the start of the Jewish High Holy Days, ...