“Remember and observe" - Ramban explains that Shabbat must be blessed and sanctified, for God commanded us to remember and ...

Somewhere along the way, we reduced the Ten Commandments to nine. A half-century ago, businesses were closed on Sunday, and ...

“The Holy One Blessed be He said to Moses: I have a good gift in my treasure house and Shabbat is its name, and I seek to give it to Israel.” (Shabbat 10b) To keep Shabbat is to enter another ...

The late conservative activist pens a love letter to the Jewish Sabbath, and invites the world to reclaim its humanity.

Organizers of the event hoped the evening would serve as a reminder of how shared ritual can build connection in moments when communities often feel divided.

(JNS) When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away. Now in their second year of marriage, the couple ...

It has become common to view Shabbat on a number of levels. Yet, no matter how you do so, one question remains uncomfortable: the Talmud states that the non-Jew who observes Shabbat deserves death.

Miriam E. Goldberger ’28, a Crimson Editorial Editor, lives in Thayer Hall. I don’t work on Saturdays. Ever. As an Orthodox Jew, I observe Shabbat, a religious practice that mandates rest on the ...

Israel supporters across the U.S and world will open their homes and synagogues on April 24 to host Shabbat dinners in ...

On September 23 the Contemporary Jewish Museum will launch "Shabbat at the Jewseum," a new quarterly program that lets attendees immerse themselves in Jewish ideas of rest and rejuvenation while ...

Can this internet wiz bring this ancient Jewish ritual to the world? When my son was born 10 years ago, I decided to bring back a tradition I had cherished as a child but somehow lost as an adult. We ...