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Robert Weinger blowing two shofars in perfect harmony. Source: Screenshot.

Shofar: A love song

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As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he was training his lips for their destiny: to enable their owner...
The tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, which draws Jewish worshippers the world over. Credit: Nahoum Sabban via Wikipedia Commons.

Despite limits on Uman pilgrimage, some hold out hope to visit for Rosh Hashanah

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Each year, tens of thousands of Jews from across the world make a pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The leader...
Railing of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia. Credit: Freepik.

High Holiday prayer books in high demand for those at home

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As the summer months near their conclusion, some can already hear the echoes of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah prayers. The High Holidays are the focal point of the year for many, and the start of a new...
Whitefish, Mont. Credit: Flickr Commons.

Anti-Semitic fliers found in Montana on Rosh Hashanah

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Anti-Semitic fliers circulated around Whitefish, Mont., on Monday, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, as part of a continuing trend that has been happening there for years. The literature included code words like the number “88,” which...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Photo by Chatham House, London/Wikimedia Commons.

Corbyn sparks controversy for Rosh Hashanah video featuring Hamas supporter

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Jeremy Corbyn sparked outrage for releasing a Rosh Hashanah video that features an activist who last year led a public Jewish mourning prayer for dead members of Hamas. In the clip posted on Twitter ahead...
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Roshashana

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Yom ha teruah –  tizku le shanim rabot, tovot u nehimot! Este diya kaye en el primer diya del syeten mez del kalendaryo Hebreo ke es  Tishrei  (Levitiques  23.24). El primer mes es Nisan, komo lo...
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray in a synagogue in the town of Uman before the start of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16, 2012. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

50,000-plus worshippers travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah

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Tens of thousands of Jews from around the world have arrived in Uman, Ukraine, to spend Rosh Hashanah near the tomb of spiritual leader Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The two-day holiday begins on the...
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 14, 2018. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

On pre-holiday call, Trump highlights exiting Iran deal, backing Holocaust education, battling anti-Semitism

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In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither...
Worshippers gather for the ritual of Tisha B'Av at the Wall Western in the Old City of Jerusalem early morning Aug. 9, 2011. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Jewish population worldwide hits 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah

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The global Jewish population hovers around 14.8 million ahead of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish new year 5780, according to estimates published by Professor Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew...
Mahatma Gandhi. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Gandhi letter wishing Jews ‘era of peace’ ahead of Rosh Hashanah found at National...

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An 80-year-old handwritten letter Mahatma Gandhi wrote to a local Indian Jewish official ahead of the Jewish New Year and at the start of World War II was published online Tuesday for the first time ever. In...