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After pandemic separation and a recent surge in antisemitism, more young people — Jewish and not — seem to be celebrating the sabbath. By Alyson Krueger Thursday is not technically Shabbat ...
But, on the other hand, the Sabbath is celebrated by the very people who did observe it…as a day of rest and joy, of pleasure and delight, a day in which man enjoys some presentiment of the pure ...
A woman lights Sabbath candles. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images I read Andy Kessler’s “ My Attempt at Tuning Out the World ” (Inside View, Nov. 21) with much curiosity.
This past Shabbat (Sabbath) was a dark day in American Jewish history. Once again — this time within Judaism — the rule that the Left destroys everything it touches was exemplified.
My father, a Holocaust slave-labor survivor of Siberia, taught me to love every part of Jewish observance as well as to respect and nod or smile at everyone I pass on the streets, and we lived in ...
Shabbat is when the hectic week comes to a standstill, and Jews mark the sabbath from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It's a time to reboot, reflect and eat. "You need excuses now to slow down ...
Friday is the time for Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, for which Israeli families gather as if it were a major holiday. (Shabbat, like all Jewish holidays, begins at sundown the previous day.) ...
Every Shabbat, we welcome the Sabbath with songs of praise, but on Shabbat Hagadol we receive an extra measure of abundance. There is an intrinsic energy for renewal on Shabbat, ...
Happy Sunday! The irony of the timing of this newsletter’s publication—Sunday morning—isn’t lost on this Presbyterian. It hits inboxes while many of our Christian readers—including me ...
In my curiosity to learn more about the Jewish religion and customs, and as part of my dive into San Antonio’s local Jewish community, I unexpectedly found myself at a Shabbat dinner last Friday ...
Over the past century, the Trondheim Synagogue has weathered isolation from the rest of the Jewish world; the Holocaust, which wiped out half its community; challenges related to Shabbat ...
This past Shabbat (Sabbath) was a dark day in American Jewish history. Once again -- this time within Judaism -- the rule that the Left destroys everything it touches was exemplified.