Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself blowing a several-foot-long shofar. Zuckerberg executed a perfect tekiyah-teruah-shevarim combination on the twisted ram’s horn as one of his daughters is heard crying in the background. He, his wife Priscilla Chan, and their daughters, Max and August, live in Palo Alto. The video was…
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