EditorialThe shofar that was chosen to open “The Gates of Justice,” a 1969 cantata by the eminent jazz musician Dave Brubeck, in Los Angeles, Feb. 22, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialRabbi Gilad Kariv, the first Reform rabbi in Israel’s Parliament, blows a shofar, a ram’s horn, at his synagogue, Beit Daniel, in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2022. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
EditorialAndy Valadez, a supporter of President Donald Trump, blows a shofar wrapped in the U.S. flag near a polling station in Houston on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialJames Tisch, a shofar blower from Central Synagogue in Manhattan, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, Aug. 17, 2020, where he was recorded blowing a shofar that was used at Auschwitz. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialDavid Tzion plays a shofar, which he says he believes will protect him against the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, Israel on Monday, March 30, 2020. (Dan Balilty/The New York Times)