Word: shofar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sundown one day last week, in almost every corner of the world, skull-capped cantors put the curved Shofar (ram's horn) to their mouths and blew long, wailing blasts. Thus, Jews were called upon to take stock of their souls. It was the beginning of the two-day period of Rosh Hashana, the sacred celebration of the New Year 5710,* and the start of the ten High Holy Days which end Oct. 3 in Yom Kippur...
...Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled...
...noon, two pious Jews chosen by the rabbinate blew the shofar (ram's horn). Weizmann repeated the presidential oath with arm outstretched toward the Assembly, which rose on signal and shouted...
...horn (shofar) sounded, Jews around the world ushered in Rosh Hashana, the Hebrew New Year and 5,709 anniversary of the supposed date of the Creation...