Over the past 21 years, David Nekrutman, an Othodox Jew who lives in Israel, has been nurturing both personal and professional relationships with Christians. His newest project aims to encourage ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. This Shabbat before Passover is called Shabbat ...

You may have noticed that your refrigerator has something called Sabbath mode (your dishwasher may have this too). This is ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — It promises a revolutionary innovation that could transform Jewish Sabbath observance. By changing the way a light switch works, the patented Kosher Switch offers a novel — and, its ...

Sometimes it is the seemingly insignificant details that enable us to see the big picture. “Hanania taught: One should examine one’s garments on Sabbath eve before nightfall. Rav Yosef observed: This ...

Every week religious Jews observe the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, this article looks at its laws and customs. Every week religious Jews observe the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, and keep its laws ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...