#  Jewish High Holy Days - Year 5760 

 





September 06, 1999

 

 

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On September 6, 1999, the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*published an article about a teenage girl, Sarah Reiter of Olivette,Missouri, who blows the shofar to begin Rosh Hashanah at TempleIsrael in Creve Coeur, MO. The shofar is a Jewish ceremonialinstrument fashioned from the horn of an animal, usually a ram, butsometimes a sheep, goat, mountain goat, antelope, or gazelle. AtOrthodox and Conservative synagogues, the job of blowing the shofaris given to an honored male, but the Reform synagogue of TempleIsrael has a tradition of involving young people to blow the shofar.Rabbi Mark Shook, senior rabbi of Temple Israel, stated that lettingyoung people blow the shofar is "...a way of connecting; it createsgood vibes in the congregation."



 

 

 



 

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