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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ten-year-old Lindsay Rosichan held the shofar to her lips and blew. From the hollowed ram’s horn came a squeak that grew into a long, low, fog horn-style note of the kind that signals the start of ...

Growing up in White Meadow Lake during the 1960's, Eric Freedman had an unspectacular career at Hebrew school. He recalls daydreaming about basketball during classes and making the occasional ...

As the last service of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, was about to end, Warren Aleck stood up in the balcony of Congregation Beth El. He began the walk toward the pulpit. A few people along ...