Before the meal, we engage in a few ritual practices. The woman of the house lights the Shabbat candles, ushering in the ...

The bestselling author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Sussman has a new recipe collection out called Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours. It features 130 diverse recipes from ...

One can devise any ritual to celebrate creation, but the Shabbat ritual is exclusive to Jews. Non-Jews are not permitted by Jewish law to fully observe Shabbat. (Sanhedrin 56b) This was a pledge G ...

he said, speaking of the blessing on the wine that is offered at the beginning of Shabbat dinner. “Rituals are one of the most powerful parts of culture because humanity never invented a better ...

One Shabbat this past winter ... resulting in further alienating some Jews from the traditions and rituals practiced by more observant Jews. It is telling that the most recent Pew Study ...

Another approach to kedushah comes to mind when evaluating the dietary laws together with other major Jewish ritual observances – in particular, the Sabbath and the laws of family purity.

My Sabbath jolted me out of a daze. For millennia, religions have regarded this ritual rest as a spiritual necessity. Yet clergy are now arguing that this practice, whether in a secular or ...

Traditionally, Shabbat is celebrated with a few rituals on Friday night — lighting candles, blessing wine, eating challah — while some people attend synagogue and abstain from working and ...