In 2017, shortly after a mass shooting occurred in Las Vegas, plans for an open-air Shabbat dinner on Pico Boulevard (as part of the global unity program, Shabbat Project) were cancelled. Similarly, ...

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The Earth was a vacant abyss, with darkness on the surface of the watery depths, and a great wind blowing on the surface of the water. – Genesis 1:2 As we enter the first Shabbat of the year, and we ...

As the horror of last weekend’s attacks in Israel continue to unfold, Jewish communities around the world are rallying around the first Shabbat at war to show solidarity and support. “This is a ...

Hasidim looking to vacation on the Welsh seaside are scrambling to find alternate arrangements after Aberystwyth University banned the use of candles in its residences. Hundreds of Orthodox Jews have ...

It is customary in most Jewish communities to light Sabbath candles 18 minutes before sundown. The Talmud (Shabbat 23b) records a conversation between fifth-century scholar Rav Yosef and his wife ...

The intention is to remember more than 1,300 Israelis, most of them Jews, who were murdered by Hamas last Saturday. A new initiative by an Israeli-American philanthropist called for Jews around the ...

What could Shabbat candles and Jewish eternity possibly have to do with The New York Times – a “newspaper” not particularly renowned for its Jewish sympathies or for its support of the Jewish state?

And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. God’s first magnificent gesture was to create light. For Jews, light is glory, insight, wisdom, warmth. It is safety and it is hope. We ...

Shabbat is a weekly infusion of both physical and spiritual delight and rest for the Jewish people, the authors write. Our Torah portion, Kedoshim (holiness), expounds on pillars of sanctity that ...