(Haaretz) — If any business qualifies as seasonal, it would have to be shofar sales. Just ask Eli Ribak, whose family has been in the business of producing and selling these traditional instruments ...

It is the trumpeting sound that welcomes the Jewish New Year, the whining cry that marks the somber Day of Atonement. The shofar is the sound most associated with the Jewish religion, and it ties the ...

(JTA) GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to blow the shofar. But if you come all the way to his Kol Shofar factory here, ...

Some of the thousands of horns lying around the Kol Shofar factory in the Golan Heights on Sept. 6. Photo by Andrew Tobin Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn’t have time to teach you how to ...

Shofars: made from kudu or ram’s horn, natural in textured body or polished and refined, dark brown or beautiful in light brown color strokes, hand-painted or adorned with silver plates, the Shofar ...

Excitement buzzed earlier this month as students filed into the Jewish Community Center to make their very own shofars – an instrument used for Rash Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which occurred this ...

If there’s a business that’s seasonal, it’s that of selling shofars. Sales spike around the High Holy Days, then mellow down for the rest of the year. Shofar makers, however, don’t just sit around in ...

Shimon Keinan has had a lifelong passion for shofars. And somewhere in his factory in Israel's Golan Heights, there's the perfect one for you. GIVAT YOAV, Golan Heights (JTA) – Shimon Keinan has a ...

Shimon Keinan has a business to run. He doesn't have time to teach you how to blow the shofar. But if you come all the way to his Kol Shofar factory here, Keinan is going to make sure you walk away ...