This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
Shabbat
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Film & TV A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia — does the joke translate?
‘Dinner with the Parents,’ inspired by the hit show ‘Friday Night Dinner,’ is out now on Freevee
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Opinion I’m obsessed with Caitlin Clark. Do I choose her over Shabbat?
A crucial game for the Iowa basketball star in her final collegiate season tips off right at candle lighting
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Watch us make a delicious vegetarian version of the Shabbat stew — cholent
Both the dish and the word first appeared in the Ashkenazi Jewish community of France about 800 years ago
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Fast Forward In Tel Aviv and beyond, 200-seat empty Shabbat tables are set for Israeli hostages
Empty Shabbat tables have also gone up in the Jewish Quarter of Rome and on Australia's Bondi Beach
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Yiddish World VIDEO: An Israeli reserve soldier on the front sends a pre-sabbath greeting in Yiddish
The soldier, named Yonatan, displays a kugel he received and wishes everyone "a peaceful shabbos"
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Fast Forward How a heartland rabbi is helping congregants connect to Israel this Shabbat
In Topeka, Kansas, a Jewish community of a few hundred people unites to 'feel less alone'
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Opinion Never mind electric cars. The Conservative movement has bigger problems
How you get to shul is not as important as whether you live a Jewish life
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Sports New LA Times sports section has Sabbath-observant fans feeling boxed out
With the paper eliminating scores and recaps, some print subscribers mourn a Shabbat ritual
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