It wasn’t just a celebratory dinner,” Rabbi Joshua Davidson, of Temple Emanu-El, told JNS. “It became an important ...

Thanksgiving is very Jewish. A festive meal where we proclaim thanks for the blessings we have? That’s called Shabbat. Jews know Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday we essentially celebrate every week ...

Some 2,800 Jewish New Yorkers packed the top floor of Javits North on 11th Avenue to participate in The Big Shabbat — an ...

Shabbat is a weekly chance to hit pause, unplug and reconnect — with yourself, your people and something bigger than the weekly to-do list.

Congregation Or Ami in Lafayette Hill is looking to redefine the Shabbat experience. “Our Shabbat service experience is designed to be inclusive, relevant, thoughtful, participatory and easily ...

Hundreds of Jewish students, faculty and friends gathered under a sprawling Dunn Meadow tent on March 29 for a Shabbat dinner that Indiana University Chabad says is the largest Jewish event in ...

With less than a month remaining until the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s 2026 Campaign for Jewish Needs concludes on Dec.

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

Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for their first Shabbat services since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting an ongoing war. Rabbis led prayers of peace and ...

(RNS) — In many Christian congregations, abortion has been endlessly described as an unmitigated evil. This weekend, Jewish congregations gathering for Shabbat services will make sure American Jews ...

OneTable, a nonprofit that builds community amongst young professional-age Jews by facilitating Shabbat dinners, announced that its Philadelphia location is launching a new program that caters to ...

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 ...