A parent council in heavily Jewish Brooklyn held a “special meeting” on a Friday evening in January, knowingly excluding anyone observing Shabbat from the public forum, according to outraged community ...

Who gets to decide when a home is considered a synagogue? A question fit for Talmudic scholars or, in this case, U.S. Supreme ...

The Jewish Sabbath says we can put the ugly and corrosive noise of the week behind us and contemplate the things that matter most.

(RNS) — In many Christian congregations, abortion has been endlessly described as an unmitigated evil. This weekend, Jewish congregations gathering for Shabbat services will make sure American Jews ...

JTA — As part of a 250th anniversary celebration of the United States, US President Donald Trump is calling on Americans to pray together in a nine-hour marathon on the National Mall on Sunday ...

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 ...

* Religious players protest matches held on Jewish Sabbath * Soccer games have been held on Saturdays for decades JERUSALEM, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli soccer matches on Saturday, long a national ...

It is quite uncomfortable to explain Shabbat observance to an outsider. To tell a complete stranger that you cannot so much as press an elevator button will, for the most part, elicit vacant stares.

After protests over the opening of a café on Shabbat, a newly revealed recording raises questions about the link between the ...

Jews in Germany prepared to mark the Sabbath Friday with their confidence in the community’s miraculous rebirth shaken by the deadly anti-Semitic rampage in Halle on Yom Kippur. Nearly 75 years after ...

(JTA) — As part of a 250th anniversary celebration of the United States, President Donald Trump is calling on Americans to pray together in a nine-hour marathon on the National Mall Sunday featuring a ...