This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
Shabbat
The Latest
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Looking Forward Would you have dinner with these 125 American Jews?
Bob Dylan and Debbie Friedman? Hannah Arendt and Jackie Mason? Our Forward 125 makes for a legendary Shabbat dinner table
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Sports Ryan Turell’s pro basketball debut may be on Shabbat. Here’s his game plan.
He can't drive, cook, or use his phone. But the Motor City Cruise organization wants to make it work
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Culture After outcry from Jewish fans, Taylor Swift adds dates that don’t fall on Shabbat
‘Looks like I’ll get to see more of your beautiful faces than previously expected,’ Swift wrote
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Looking Forward The raw truth about ‘The Raw Truth About Lox’
A parable as much about how the internet works as how food memories are made
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Looking Forward What you and I are repenting for this Yom Kippur
For the sins we committed by... holding grudges... ranting... mistrusting... and being impatient
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Looking Forward Eggs or meat? More lessons from my weekly shift at a local food pantry
Oatmeal and black beans are big sellers, diapers are like gold and, it turns out, so are eggs
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Community Readers share how they turn Saturday into Shabbat
Hot cocoa from the bible, bluegrass and opera, sleeping late and cleaning house
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Looking Forward How do you turn Saturday into Shabbat?
A local cafe owner closed for the Jewish day of rest. Revenue is down 12% but his spirit is up
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
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Fast Forward Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
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Fast Forward Local politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona poised for reelection in Namibia
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Culture I attended a world-record breaking Shabbat dinner. You won’t believe how much we ate.
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Yiddish אַן אויסשטעלונג אין „פּולין“־מוזיי וועגן דער געשיכטע פֿון ייִדישע שפּראַכןAn exhibit at Warsaw’s Polin Museum on the history of Jewish languages
דער ייִדישיסט און עספּעראַנטיסט, ד״ר צבֿי סדן, האָט אַ מאָל באַמערקט אַז עספּעראַנטאָ איז „ייִדיש פֿאַר גויים“
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