Shortly after we were married, my wife and I were invited out for a Friday night meal. All the guests arrived in a timely fashion, except for one couple. After waiting a while, our hosts decided to ...

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, ...

The lighting of candles, or oil, plays a central role in Jewish life. Shabbat and festivals commence with the lighting of candles and Shabbat concludes with the lighting of a candle, we light candles ...

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?

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Once a year, we do a double, magical lighting. The candles of Shabbat meet the candles of Hanukkah. In a year when we’ve seen so much darkness, this marriage of lights holds a special significance.

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 ...

(JNS) When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away. Now in their second year of marriage, the couple ...

Jay Lefkowitz is a lawyer in New York City. There is a cartoon circulating on the Internet these days that captures the monotony of self-isolating life during the covid-19 pandemic. The image is of a ...