This assembly focuses on Judaism; Shabbat; celebrating world religions and the Ten Commandments. Includes a song / reflection ...

As anyone who has spent weeks cleaning for Passover can attest, the Shabbat before the holiday is often, as the kids would say, mid. Paranoid about any hametz landing under couches, stressed about the ...

The Jewish Shabbat, or Sabbath, begins just before sundown on Friday and continues through sundown on Saturday, until three stars are visible in the sky. It is a day of rest and a time to reflect on ...

Public discussions of Shabbat often reduce it to a day of rest: a pause from labor, a spiritual recharge, a protest against burnout. While not wrong, this framing misses something far more radical — ...

In the wake of Oct. 7 and the subsequent surge of antisemitism worldwide, many have asked how we should respond to this darkness. The answer, I believe, lies in one of our most powerful traditions: ...

To keep Shabbat is to enter another dimension. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously called Shabbat “a sanctuary in time.” On Shabbat, we experience something other-worldly— a “ me’ein Olam Haba ”— a ...

(JTA) — Six decades ago, shortly before Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Rabbi Joachim Prinz called for racial equality in an ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Nine a.m. on a Saturday morning might be one of the few times during the week that Times Square isn’t brimming with tourists, theater-goers and commuters. But when you bring ...

(RNS) — With her latest book, she turns back to her roots in a Modern Orthodox home where her mother cooked dishes typical of the Ashkenazi tradition. (RNS) — Ashkenazi food, the kind prepared by Jews ...