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News Martin Luther King Signed Shabbat Program Goes on Block
A piece of civil rights history with a poignant link to a New Jersey Jewish community is going on the auction block. A signed program from a 1963 Shabbat sermon delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Temple Sha’arey Shalom in Springfield, New Jersey is available for sale at Lelands Auction in an online…
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Breaking News Israel Prepares for an ‘Accessibility Shabbat’
Jerusalem — An “Accessibility Shabbat” will be held in communities across Israel. The program being held this coming Shabbat is designed to highlight the need for greater respect for the handicapped and disabled within the religious community, and in Israeli society in general. The initiative is being spearheaded by the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization. The initiative…
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Food My Great Big Challah Bake Experience
The Rockleigh Country Club looked like it had been transformed into a giant, glitzy bakery. Tables in the posh banquet hall were decked out with mixing bowls, spatulas and zipper bags in which all the ingredients for a water challah had been carefully measured out for each cook — all 1,400 of them. It was…
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Culture My Big Sabbath Lie — and the Joy It Brought
It is 4 p.m. on a September Friday and I have just completed my first week at one of New York’s august law firms, the kind that prides itself on keeping its junior lawyers toiling into the wee hours and all through the weekend. Yet here I am, heading home to Brooklyn to spend the…
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Food Finding God in a Carrot Field
A surprising religious journey awaited Shira Wolf in the rolling fields of this sustainable farm in Danby, Connecticut. I’m a nice Jewish girl. I’ve lived in New York City, gone to synagogue, and attended modern Orthodox Jewish day schools my whole life. Which is why it struck many of my friends and fellow community members…
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Breaking News Fast Train From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Stalled by Shabbat Dispute
The completion of a fast train connection between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem will be delayed by two years because of the Israeli economy ministry’s refusal to allow work on Shabbat, Israel Railway said. The statement Friday said the project, which is due to be completed in 2017, may take until 2019, Army Radio reported. Israel…
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Life Spreading Shabbat Joy from the Upper East Side Around the World
(JTA) — To Jewish parents of young children on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Karina Zilberman is something of a celebrity. She is the tall, blonde, guitar-strumming founder of the 92nd Street Y’s Shababa, a multigenerational musical celebration of Shabbat whose name is a mash-up of the modern Hebrew word “sababa” (meaning “cool” or “chill”) and…
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Breaking News Ultra-Orthodox Demonstrate Against Movie Theater on Shabbat
Thousands of haredi Orthodox Jewish men clashed with police during protests against a new cinema in Jerusalem that stays open on Shabbat. Some of the protestors threw stones at police and broke the windows of a building on Friday night, the Times of Israel reported. Two separate demonstrations took place throughout the night in the…
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