Shabbat
My aunt’s Tunisian couscous with beef I #TweetYourShabbat
It starts with a flurry of text.
My Orthodox friend hasn’t kissed his fiancee. But I have.
Should I tell him that she was bad in bed?
Is this Shabbat prayer non-binary?
Hebrew is a gendered language. Yet Yedid Nefesh has variations across them all when addressing the Divine.
Chocolate olive-oil mousse and other blessings of a #QuarantineShabbat
Three recipes to make a quarantine shabbat feel blessed
Quarantine Shabbat: Chicken and Artichoke Paella on a Wood Fire
Learn to make Spanish paella with chicken and artichokes over a wood fire.
For Millenials, virtual Shabbat motivates neighborhood connections
At 5 pm on Fridays, Julia Logan pushes back her desk, moves her work screen aside and dims the lighting. In her small apartment dining room, amidst twinkling lights in mason jars, she sets a Shabbat table for one and joins a Zoom call of seven other young adults in Chicago, and across the country.
How to cook a #QuarantineShabbat
A shabbat meal to cook at home during the quarantine.
Some Orthodox rabbis permit phone use on holidays, citing pandemic’s mental health risks
“It is permitted to use all these technologies, such as Zoom and everything else, in order to stay in touch, for the purpose of saving lives.”
Coronavirus shrinks wedding of couple who courted at Shabbat dinners
“I thought to myself that God had wanted us to have a modest wedding and that’s how we are going to do it.”
No challah? Garlic bread. Shabbat dinner must go on.
“Spring is definitely cancelled,” one person said as I lifted the cork on a bottle of wine. “But I think summer is still on.”