Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.
A man blows a shofar, or ram's horn, during a Rosh Hashanah ritual in Israel.
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