Last Motzaei Shabbat, a special Passover seminar for 95 Jews from cities and towns across eastern Ukraine came to an end at ...

A Shabbat service will take place in Worcester this weekend for the first time in half a century. The service, in which a ...

“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 ...

In an atheistic world in which divine creation is largely denied, Shabbat observance and its affirmation of God are even more critical. Shabbat experience is seminal to Jewish identity. By reenacting ...

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Each Friday I try to end the week by saying Shabbat Shalom to those who have made a difference over the past few days.

We read in our Parasha (23:1-4), that:’Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying:’Speak to Bnei Israel and say to them: אלה מועדי ה׳: These are My appointed festivals that you are to designate as holy ...

“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.” — ...

The future of Jewish life will not be built primarily through better messaging, but through better experiences.

Israeli comedian Guy Hochman announced on Saturday evening that he would fully observe the next Shabbat as a call for unity in Israel. Next Shabbat is the one directly before Purim. It is ...

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