So you want to host your first Shabbat dinner or lunch and you’re shaky on the logistics? Perhaps you didn’t grow up with the tradition but would like to start a Friday night custom to gather with ...

When No’a, a 29-year-old Jewish woman in recovery from an eating disorder sits at the Shabbat table every week, she already knows what to expect. “Ritual is something that obviously has a huge place ...

A longtime member of Bais Bezalel – nicknamed “Gagy” — and the children of the shul’s Rabbi Moshe Levin deliver readymade Shabbat meals in the Pico area on Friday. Photo by Ryan Torok As the ...

More than 2,000 people in Tel Aviv set the Guinness World Record for largest Shabbat dinner. At a June 13 evening event hosted by White City Shabbat, a Tel Aviv organization that hosts and coordinates ...

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Freshly back from a fantastic year in seminary, I was extremely nervous about finding a Jewish community within my secular college. Everyone assumed, including myself, that I would head home every ...

Guests gathered at the Sid Jacobson JCC on May 15 for an intercultural Shabbat dinner that brought together members of the ...