Janice Balin watches her seven-year-old granddaughters blow shofars during The Blast,” an event in which Jews in the Washington, D.C., area blew shofars to mark the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish ...

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git and GitHub, you've just made the learning process significantly easier. This two-hour Git and GitHub video tutorial shows you how to get started with ...

In her office above Dupont Circle, Debra Katz shows me a newspaper clipping about her father, Herbie Katz: “Rhumba Hep Cat ‘El Gato’ Achieving Local Success” reads the headline on a profile of a ...

Just before the start of the ground operation in southern Lebanon, soldiers of the 36th Division were documented blowing a shofar and praying with the division’s rabbi, Rabbi Yair Abu, for their ...

How is Yom Kippur celebrated? Yom Kippur is typically celebrated with a day of reflection, prayer and fasting. Followers of the Jewish faith attend religious services and do not eat from sundown to ...

Rabbi Herbert Brockman issues a Days of Awe reminder about the futility of war. This column will appear as the Jewish community is in the midst of its holy day period known as the “High Holidays.” It ...

Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening. “The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram’s ...

(The Conversation) — The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High Holidays: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (The Conversation ...

Jewish communities across central Illinois will soon gather at synagogues or special services to mark the start of the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah begins the Days of Awe, which are 10 days of ...

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. The ...