Word: shofar
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...novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote in Yiddish for New York's Jewish Daily Forward. In translation they are brisk, bright and engagingly exotic. Even readers who have never heard a shofar will recognize the book as a letter from home...
Unearthing a marble slab showing the menorah, the seven-armed candle-holder, a tree, and the shofar (the ram's horn used to announce the New Year), the American archaeologists became convinced that the large structure was the meeting place of the Jewish community of Sardis...
Pastor Bronstein's services follow a conventional Protestant order, with special emphasis on the connections between the Old Testament and the New. Jewish holidays are celebrated with Christian interpretations. Example: the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah-to remind God of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and. for Isaac's sake, the forgiveness of sins-contains for Jewish Christians the additional idea that Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world...
First prize in graphic arts rightly went to Leonard Baskin for his superb "Shofar Prayer." Other awards went to William Georgenes, Jane Stouffer and Donald Kelley, the last outstanding for his "Priscilla." In sculpture, first prize went to Harold Tovish's good "Head of a Girl," with honorable mention to William Martin's striking "Stalking Bird." I liked George Aaron's "Jeremiah" and Peter Abate's "Youth and His Dreams" most...
...Year for the Jews. All over the world this week, families come together to pray and wish each other "Leshanah tobah tikkatheb (may you be inscribed [in the book of life] for a good year)"; the shofar sounds, and the year 5714 (since the Creation) begins. All over the world, Orthodox elders shake their heads at the careless young for whom the high holidays mean nothing more than some time off from their jobs. But in Israel this week many of the young ones, too, are shaking their heads-at the sterile secularism of their elders the Zionist pioneers...