“We blow shofar at a time of celebration; at a time of alarm; and as a call to teshuva, to repentance and to changing our behaviors,” Nigel Savage, Hazon’s CEO, said in a statement.

He likened the onset of the pandemic two years ago to God’s blowing of the shofar at Sinai in Exodus, uniting a fractious people of Israel in awe and fear. “How many distractions, the ...