Reap the health benefits of Shabbat: Unplug for a set time every week and make it a discipline. Create a Friday night ritual.

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 ...

For the past eight years, a group of Jewish senior citizens have attended a weekly ritual of Shabbat dinner on Friday night, meeting their friends at the Wendy's fast food chain near their Sun City ...

It’s an invitation to take time at the end of the week to unwind and connect with your family, your community, your religion. No matter what your Jewish background, sharing a Friday night Shabbat meal ...

On September 23 the Contemporary Jewish Museum will launch "Shabbat at the Jewseum," a new quarterly program that lets attendees immerse themselves in Jewish ideas of rest and rejuvenation while ...

Editor's note: This is a companion piece to the story "Muslim community comes together as attacks in Gaza continue." Some 6,000 miles away from the conflict that rages between Israel and the Hamas-led ...

In the wake of Oct. 7 and the subsequent surge of antisemitism worldwide, many have asked how we should respond to this darkness. The answer, I believe, lies in one of our most powerful traditions: ...

I read Andy Kessler’s “My Attempt at Tuning Out the World” (Inside View, Nov. 21) with much curiosity. Thousands of years ago, Moses taught the Jewish people the Ten Commandments, and ever since we ...

Before every Sabbath or Shabbat, some Jewish people begin preparing for synagogue and rest from work by lighting candles and baking challah. Some Jewish people live by religious laws that mean they ...