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

Growing up in Palo Alto, California, food writer and author Adeena Sussman recalls waking up to the smell of her mother's dishes cooking on the stove in preparation for Shabbat. The weekly Jewish ...

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 ...

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 ...