Reap the health benefits of Shabbat: Unplug for a set time every week and make it a discipline. Create a Friday night ritual.

The late conservative activist pens a love letter to the Jewish Sabbath, and invites the world to reclaim its humanity.

On Friday, February 16, in honor of Black History Month, Congregation Or Ami in Calabasas hosted an Embracing Jews/People of Color Shabbat. This is part of Or Ami’s Mosaic Initiative to create a model ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's Jewish community, some of whom were forced to leave Libya 40 years ago, are angry over Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's apparent willingness to meet them only on Saturday, the ...

Mesiba, an Israeli hotspot in Williamsburg, collaborates with a different chef or influencer each week to welcome the Sabbath in unique and delicious ways. On Friday nights at Mesiba, a lively Israeli ...

A parent council in heavily Jewish Brooklyn held a “special meeting” on a Friday evening in January, knowingly excluding anyone observing Shabbat from the public forum, according to outraged community ...

In the wake of Oct. 7 and the subsequent surge of antisemitism worldwide, many have asked how we should respond to this darkness. The answer, I believe, lies in one of our most powerful traditions: ...

Three divisions of U. S. citizens are compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What does it mean to be a Jew? Who gets to be a Jew? These are some of the most ancient questions in Jewish doctrine and also the ...