Through “Shabbat Shalom.” Quietly. In a Jewish way. As a sign of agreement. As a sign of respect. As if saying without words: ...

Friday afternoon at precisely 6:30, the time he said he would meet me, I see the sun-like smile of my friend Eric Solomon. The rabbi at Raleigh's Beth Meyer Synagogue, he bounds into the plaza at the ...

“A cold rain fell all day Friday here in Jerusalem, yet we turned the dreariness of the day into a metaphor for the pains of the past and tomorrow’s dreams,” reports Dr. Peter Tarlow from Israel.

Israel's government approved a ceasefire deal with Hamas early Saturday morning. The deal was revealed earlier this week, when negotiators revealed a breakthrough in talks between the two parties in ...

To keep Shabbat is to enter another dimension. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously called Shabbat “a sanctuary in time.” On Shabbat, we experience something other-worldly— a “ me’ein Olam Haba ”— a ...

Shalom, in Hebrew, can mean both “hello” and “peace.” To say Shabbat shalom, therefore, is to greet the Sabbath and describe its serenity. Or perhaps, to say hello to peace. I am not religious. I do ...

“The entire world was endowed with ten measures of beauty. Of these, Jerusalem received nine” (BT Kiddushin 49b). Once every week its beauty is further enhanced, as Shabbat arrives in the holy city, ...

As he spoke, I suddenly remembered that on the Shabbos of the bar mitzvah as our entire family walked the streets of Jerusalem, talking, laughing, exchanging ideas and thoughts, happy to be a family ...