You’re busy preparing food for Shabbat, and in the midst of that frenzy, you have to make a pre-Shabbat lunch. Fortunately, there are plenty of customs and recipes to make this ordinary meal memorable.

Battles over Sabbath observance in America are nothing new

How mourning the loss of Friday Shabbat dinners turned into savoring Saturday nights with my non-Jewish in-laws

In the Talmud, some essential reflections on labor and rest

I got tired of playing board games with my kids on Shabbat—because I kept losing. But maybe winning isn’t everything.

Sheltering at home during the pandemic has revived a tradition our family gave up years ago

An ancient Jewish practice may help save us all

Our last dispatch from a city that is still in shock

Need to use a keyboard on Shabbat? Can’t fulfill the mitzvah of lighting candles? Zomet, a non-profit research outfit in Israel, has the gadgets you need.

A new short documentary tells the moving story of zaydes and bubbes looking for community among the Baconators and the fries

This pull-apart bread comes with a tasty tomato dip, too

An amputated leg, a bitten-off penis, a 600-pound wrestler, and the great tonsil riot, among other examples of humanity’s glorious ineptitude, in ‘Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press’

The delicate balance between civil liberties and Jewish identity is called into question

On the surprising rewards of re-experiencing a game, even when you already know the ending

How to avoid using power that comes from stations that work on Shabbat? Invent a new kind of strictly kosher grid, some haredi lawmakers say.