“You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives you a total of forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the shofar loud; in the ...

Ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United Nations and in honor of the upcoming New Year, a ceremony was held this morning at the Prime Minister’s Office.

It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues — for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An ...

Years ago, on a Temple Akiba Israel trip, I purchased a funky shofar from a vendor in the mystical town of Tzvat. To this day, I believe that it must have come from a unicorn—it certainly doesn’t ...

The current government of Israel – and the Jews of Israel who support it as well as Jews everywhere – need to not only hear ...

In this week's Jerusalem Lights podcast, Jim Long and Rabbi Chaim Richman talk about the tremendous spiritual power and potential of this holy time, and why it is called by Torah the 'day of Shofar ...

Israel and the militant group Hamas agreed to the first phase of a deal involving an exchange of Israeli hostages in Gaza and ...