At “Big Shabbat,” nearly 3,000 Jews at the Javits Center in Manhattan broke the Guinness world record for largest Shabbat ...

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Berel Lang of Wesleyan University writes to ask if I would “consider tracing the genealogy of the Hebrew Sabbath greeting ‘Shabbat Shalom’ — specifically, when it entered popular discourse.” And he ...

A group of Jewish seniors celebrate the Sabbath (Shabbat) at the local Wendy's restaurant. Friends usher in the Sabbath—called by its Hebrew name Shabbat—by candlelight, with challah bread and grape ...

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Benjamin J. Hubbard is a professor and chairman of the department of comparative religion at Cal State Fullerton One of Judaism’s greatest gifts to humanity is the concept of the Sabbath (Shabbat in ...

Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” starts Psalm 92 of the Tehilim. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy being written every year. Here are five ...