This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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Food Welcome to Pot Shabbat
Definitely not your bubbe’s matzo balls; these have THC in them. On a recent Friday night in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven 30- and 40-somethings gathered in a cozy home for Shabbat dinner. They lit candles, chanted Kiddish and ritually washed their hands before ha-motzi, the prayer over the bread. But the first bite…
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News Shabbat Dinner Helped Turn Around This Ex-White Supremacist
How does one of the country’s leading white nationalists become a liberal backer of racial equality? Shabbat dinner might have something to do with it. According to a Washington Post profile, Derek Black, a onetime protege of David Duke, turned away from the hateful ideology after Jewish students reached out to him to join their…
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News Did Jared Kushner Break Shabbat to Help Donald Trump Survive Tape Crisis?
Jared Kushner broke his usual Shabbat routine to help his father-in-law, Donald Trump, through a crisis sparked by the release of blockbuster tapes showing the presidential candidate lewdly discussing women. Kushner is an observant Orthodox Jew who normally does not work during Shabbat. But as the New York Times reported, he was among a group…
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Fast Forward 12 Top Polish Leaders To Attend Warsaw Shabbat Dinner
— Several Jewish groups from Poland are preparing to host 12 of the country’s senior lawmakers and Cabinet ministers at a Shabbat dinner in Warsaw. The dinner, hosted by the TSKZ cultural group and a smaller organization called the Jewrnalism Foundation, will feature guests from across the political spectrum, including the secretary of state, Anna…
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News Will This Invention Make the ‘Shabbos Goy’ Obsolete?
Observant Jews might soon be able to dispense with the “Shabbos goy,” the Gentile neighbor or friend who performs forbidden labor during the Sabbath, reports Orthodox news site “Vos Iz Neias” (Yiddish for “What is News?”). That’s because Morty Kohn, a Brooklyn electrician, has created a new light bulb that he says can effectively be…
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Fast Forward Did Shabbat Keep One Orthodox Business Safe From Chelsea Bombing?
Shabbat is often a good excuse to cut out of work and relax. But on Saturday night in Chelsea, it was more than that, as employees at a Sabbath-observant store in Chelsea escaped harm from the Saturday night explosion in that neighborhood. Arriving at the King David Gallery two days after the blast, owner David…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump’s Ex-Wife Marla Maples Is Christian — but Keeps Kosher and Shabbat
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s ex-wife Marla Maples is a Christian who keeps the Jewish Sabbath and eats kosher. A profile posted Thursday by The Daily Beast said that Maples, a Baptist, regularly attends church, “but keeps Shabbat, eats kosher, and studies Kabbalah.” Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, left his first wife, Ivana, for Maples, whom…
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Fast Forward ‘Shabbat Wars’ Heat Up as Israel’s Secular Battle Ultra-Orthodox
On the first Friday evening that Jerusalem restaurant Azza 40 opened without a kosher license, allowing it to serve customers on the Jewish sabbath, crowds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested outside, threatening to smash windows and burn the place down. “It was crazy,” said Reut Cohen, 29, the restaurant’s owner and head chef, recalling the events…
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