At “Big Shabbat,” nearly 3,000 Jews at the Javits Center in Manhattan broke the Guinness world record for largest Shabbat ...

Rabbi Jamie Korngold, the founder of Adventure Rabbi, wrote, “How do you transform a day of powder skiing into a holy day? By stopping to notice a snow-dusted Douglas fir tree you might have skied by ...

Berel Lang of Wesleyan University writes to ask if I would “consider tracing the genealogy of the Hebrew Sabbath greeting ‘Shabbat Shalom’ — specifically, when it entered popular discourse.” And he ...

A group of Jewish seniors celebrate the Sabbath (Shabbat) at the local Wendy's restaurant. Friends usher in the Sabbath—called by its Hebrew name Shabbat—by candlelight, with challah bread and grape ...

Of all the gifts that the Jewish people has given to the world, perhaps the most important is what in Hebrew is called “Shabbat” and often translated into English as “Sabbath.” Shabbat, however, is ...

Every Friday evening at sunset, the Jewish Sabbath — Shabbat in Hebrew — begins and until sunset the next day it is meant to be a time of rest. “Instead of the mundane labor that inundated the week, ...

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A grassroots effort that began in 2013 anticipates some 1 million people in more than 1,500 countries to revel in the day of rest starting at sundown Nov. 15. It’s all about keeping Shabbat. For a ...

Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” starts Psalm 92 of the Tehilim. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy being written every year. Here are five ...

CRANFORD — On Friday night, March 2, members of Union County’s Jewish community will gather at Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim in an unparalleled display of Jewish revitalization and Jewish unity.