This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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Fast Forward El Al To Investigate Flight Diverted To Accommodate Sabbath Observers
El Al Airlines will set up a committee to study the events that led its flight from New York to Tel Aviv to stop in Athens in order to allow Sabbath-observant passengers to get off the plane. El Al CEO Gonen Usishkin, who announced the plan to set up the committee in a letter to…
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Life The Secular Case For A Biblical Sabbath
“It was Grandfather’s [watch], and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire … I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to…
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Life Finding Solace In Shabbat, After Pittsburgh
On Saturday night, what feels like a lifetime yet was only six days ago — after a rainy and windy day of mostly board games and books, my family gathered, as we do each week, to strike a match, light our colorful braided candle, and make Havdalah to mark the end of Shabbat. As we…
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The Schmooze After Pittsburgh, Jews Around The World Plan To #ShowUpForShabbat
Jews guard Shabbat. We observe it, in ways ranging from halachic to self care-centric. We kindle its lights, we make it beautiful, and we keep it holy. And this week, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a Jewish advocacy group, is encouraging us to “#showupforshabbat.” The social media initiative has taken off as Jews and non-Jews…
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Fast Forward As Shabbat Ends, A Wounded Pittsburgh Neighborhood Gathers To Mourn
The day that the American Jewish community experienced the most deadly anti-Semitic hate crime directed at it in the history of the United States was also Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest. So when Shabbat ended at sundown in the densely Jewish town of Squirrel Hill, where a gunman killed 11 Jews at prayer,…
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Fast Forward ‘Hebrew Hammer’ Josh Rosen Wished Everyone ‘Shabbat Shalom’ — On A Wednesday
Still reveling in his team’s win against the San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen tweeted a clip Wednesday of him celebrating a play, captioned “Shabbat Shalom.” Just a little early, Josh! Shabbat Shalom #HebrewHammer ✡️ pic.twitter.com/uUoPIo3jVl — Josh Rosen (@josh3rosen) October 10, 2018 Let’s chalk it up to excitement. The game ended in…
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The Schmooze Was Ivanka Texting At John McCain’s Funeral On Shabbat?
Footage of Ivanka Trump at John McCain’s memorial service shows the first daughter and presidential advisor focusing on something in her lap during several eulogies, including those given by former senator Joe Lieberman and bereaved daughter Meghan McCain. Now Nancy Jew — girl detective and halakhah sleuth — must solve several mysteries: Was Ivanka Trump…
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The Schmooze Is Shabbat A Way To Combat Millennial Loneliness?
Millennials, the media would have you believe, have both destroyed the nuclear family and the fabric softener industry. These unfortunate adult children are both addicted to social media and terribly, woefully lonely. They’re short on funds but long on anxiety. Is everyone born between between 1981 and 1996 just doomed? What could fix Generation X…
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