(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The Har Sinai Congregation, a Reform congregation, reverted to the ancient custom of sounding the Shofar, the Ram’s horn, on the morning of Rosh Hashanah.
For many years the temple has used a modern trumpet, a procedure contrary to orthodox traditioon.
To the choirmaster, Edgar T. Paul, who is not a Jew, was assigned the task of blowing the Shofar. The rabbi of the temple is Dr. Edward Israel.
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