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 ...

Dmitriy Salita, a boxer turned promoter, has made an effort to ensure that his career and the Sabbath don’t collide.The post ‘A very unique journey in the boxing business’ appeared ...

An arsonist set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue and forced the congregation to flee on Friday, seven months after ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a memorable television commercial aired with the tagline, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s real Jewish Rye.” The ad featured people from various ethnic and cultural ...

Torah commentaries weigh in on the philosophic and practical issue of the difference between Shabbat and the other festivals and why Shabbat is mentioned with them despite that.

Shabbat Hagadol: Receiving the great Sabbath This year, as Passover begins at the close of Shabbat, the lights of Shabbat and Passover flow into each other as we commemorate our becoming a people.

Like generations of Jews before her, the Shabbat Queen stood at her side, offering her strength and courage. Agam carried within the unbreakable freedom of Shabbat.

The Jewish Sabbath, a sacred day of rest and prayer, celebrates “holiness in time.” Every week, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, Jews around the world celebrate Shabbat, the Sabbath. A ...

Yes, Shabbat, the traditional Jewish Sabbath, is as old as Judaism itself — the Torah, after all, tells us that God rested on the seventh day of Creation, and thus commanded us to rest.

Friends usher in the Sabbath—called by its Hebrew name Shabbat—by candlelight, with challah bread and grape juice to complement their chicken nuggets and fries. Shabbat is typically observed ...

My assignment is to report to the Shabbat Congress on the state of Sabbath observance among the Jews the world over. Before the war began, I visited many countries of Europe.

Rabbi Seth Adelson says much the same about Shabbat in today’s essay, highlighting connections between Sabbath observance and the cosmos.