Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Shofar Man Hits the Streets of L.A.

Los Angeles is not exactly an unexpected place to find Judaic symbols, but we think you'll agree that the sound of a shofar is not what most people expect to hear in Starbucks, a skate park, a boardwalk, an office conference room, a tunnel, a bowling alley, boarding a bus, in a barber shop, atop a giant sloth, and at a Mexican street fair.

But that's exactly what they heard, as Shofar Man Michael Brous walked the streets of Los Angeles this week to give Angelenos a taste of Rosh Hashana and employ the shofar blast as a call to wake up to what's possible for ourselves and our world this Jewish new year.

The video, "Street Shofar," was produced by IKAR, a progressive, egalitarian Jewish community in Los Angeles.

Enjoy!

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