Can’t wait for tonight. Candlelight, a bottle of Bro-Deux from Shirah Wine, fresh challah from our French-Persian bakery with a heavy dose of sesame seeds on top, some special guests, our four ...

In the Ten Commandments it says: “Six days you shall labor and do all your work," whereas here it says, “Six days you shall do your work" - your work, but not all your work, for in the Sabbatical year ...

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.

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 ...

This Shabbat before Passover is called Shabbat Hagadol. Shabbat has been called the wonderful gift in the divine treasure house, which faithfully comes every week, bestowing blessings of light, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The concept of the Sabbath began at the beginning of time. God gave his people an example to follow: "On the sixth day God ...

The smell of chicken soup simmering on the stove, the first bite of warm challah or the light emanating from the lit candles, these are just a few ways that Shabbat can bring joy to a Jewish life by ...

I am trying to make an impossible summer as sweet as possible for my child. This week there was deep exhaustion and sadness. Despite it all, Shabbat still comes Within grief, and loss, and hardship, ...

The Torah mandates that one should refrain from performing any manner of melachah (commonly translated as “work”) on Shabbat (Deuteronomy 5:12–15; Exodus 20:8–11). We know, of course, that melachah ...

“A thought has blown the marketplace away. There is a song on the wind and joy in the trees. Shabbat arrives in the world, scattering a song in the silence of the night. Eternity utters a day.” — ...

UCSB seniors Gloria Kompel, left, Jordan Fishburn and Sarah Feuer helped plan the annual Mega Shabbat dinner. Credit: Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk photo Outside the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center in ...