Posts Tagged: Shabbat
Defense Minister Gallant, ‘IDF Forces Are Operating in the South, in an Attack, with Great Success’
i24 News - In a recent situation assessment at the Northern Command, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reiterated Israel's unwavering commitment to an active defense policy...
Israeli Hostage Families, Supporters Hold Shabbat Service in Jerusalem After March of Solidarity
The families of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 who departed from Tel Aviv by foot earlier this week arrived on Friday in...
Shabbat Is the Gift That Keeps Giving
Oscar Wilde is purported to have said that “to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” I had always thought this was a...
Shabbat Is Not a Day of Rest; It’s a Gift for Personal Growth
Each one of us, at some point in our lives -- and perhaps it is rather more often than we care to admit -- will...
Netanyahu’s Western Wall Decision Gives the Lie to Democracy Hysteria
JNS.org – It was a story that was over almost before it began. The hysteria over a proposal by the Shas Party to essentially criminalize...
Israeli Far-Right Lawmaker Demands Halt to Soccer Matches Being Held on Shabbat
The chairman of Israel’s far-right Religious Zionist party Bezalel Smotrich demanded a halt to professional soccer games being held on Shabbat, the Jewish day of...
US Senate to Pause Trump Impeachment Trial at End of Week for Jewish Sabbath
The US Senate will pause former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial from Friday evening to Saturday evening this week to honor a request by a...
Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Chief Rabbis From Around World Organize #KeepingItTogether Shabbat Initiative
Amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, a group of chief rabbis from around the world have organized a Shabbat observance initiative -- under the banner of...
A Jew’s Home Is His or Her Temple
Last week, I was meant to have been in Fort Lee, New Jersey for a rabbinical seminar, but it was obviously canceled, although part of...
Slowing Down on Shabbat in the Age of Social Media
JNS.org - “We’ve been sacrificing the important on the altar of the urgent for so long that our lives have lost their balance and we...
Shabbat: God’s Opportunity for Us to Reflect
I recently saw an article on Business Insider by Julian Hayes II. You will be excused for not having heard of him. The business magazine...
Doubling Down on Shabbat
JNS.org - At a time of rampant assimilation and declining synagogue attendance, how do you get more Jews to connect to their tradition? In recent...
Why Shabbat Cannot Be Postponed
Rashi asks the question: Why does the Torah need to specify that the Sabbath offering should be brought on Shabbat? If it is called a...
Parshat Emor: Three Versions of Shabbat
There is something unique about the way parshat Emor speaks about Shabbat. It calls it a mo’ed and a mikra kodesh when, in the conventional...
