(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 ...

A tambourine-lover with creative tactics meant to take congregants outside of their comfort zone, Rabbi RuthE Levy of Mountain Synagogue in Franklin doesn’t mess around when it comes to musical ...

It is quite uncomfortable to explain Shabbat observance to an outsider. To tell a complete stranger that you cannot so much as press an elevator button will, for the most part, elicit vacant stares.

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 ...

“On Shabbat, we do not escape either the state or the sense of need. That would deny our creaturely humanity. We do, however, reorient our needs.” Many Jews have turned to prayer during the ...

I recently saw a billboard advertisement for Global Day of Unplugging and I mused, “A yearly day? We have a weekly day of unplugging!” When Shabbat was first conceived thousands of years ago, it was a ...

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.

A day after a man drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, the synagogue held a Shabbat service at Shenandoah ...

“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 ...

A grassroots effort that began in 2013 anticipates some 1 million people in more than 1,500 countries to revel in the day of rest starting at sundown Nov. 15. It’s all about keeping Shabbat. For a ...