Reviving an old Shabbat ritual gave us the means for dealing with loss and sorrow. This essay originally appeared in the New York Jewish Week. Friday night. We are standing in a paved plaza beside ...

Within the delineated space, special liberties--such as carrying objects, or pushing a stroller--that would otherwise violate the ritual laws of keeping the Sabbath are allowed. Just as this ...

try to keep Shabbat, but if this is not possible they try not to worry too much. Often Reform Jews light candles after sunset. Also, while they try to complete the symbolic rituals, they may alter ...

Ozzy's big gimmick on stage was flashing double peace signs. It had become such a Black Sabbath ritual that when Dio took ...

Shabbat is very very hard because if you're ... And a lot of our religion as you know is a ritual of eating and families coming together to eat is just part and parcel of our religion and what ...

Black Sabbath took rock into shadowy new territory ... but nothing was as blatant as the album's 13-minute spoken-word ritual, "Satanic Mass" – a track that left no doubt about the band's ...