At HEA, shofar blowers are teens

know the classic image of a white-bearded, slightly hunched old man blowing a shofar that appears on greeting cards and calendars? Well, that is so 5777, as worshippers at the Hebrew Educational Alliance learned on Rosh Hashanah this year. The shofar the HEA heard was blown by two teenagers: Zev Cohen, 17, and Michael Green, 13. The honor of blowing the shofar was one to which both young men had aspired for many years. Zev’s father Albert Cohen started teaching him and his siblings how to blow a shofar from the time they were young. Zev reckons he was four years old the first time he tried. Through the years, he practiced more and more until two years ago, he was allowed to blow the […]