As the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary with nationwide celebrations of faith and religion, a special Shabbos-themed event was held at the White House on Friday.

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, ...

This week under The Shabbat Project more than one million Jews will circle the world with light - the light of the Sabbath candles - as Jews of every affiliation do their best to keep Shabbat together ...

Shabbat candles are lit to bring in the Shabbat on Friday night. At least two candles are lit, although many people light more, with two candles representing the two versions of the commandment to ...

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?

This week we celebrated Rosh Hodesh Kislev, a month that is a harbinger of Hanukkah, the holiday symbolizing light in the darkness and divine protection against a mighty enemy. As I reflect back, in ...

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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 ...

Imagine that you have enough money for just one thing - Shabbat candles or Hanukkah candles. Today we light six Hanukkah candles and after them Shabbat candles, but let's suppose that we don't have ...