Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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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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News ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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Looking Forward What I learned about the Holocaust playing a game called ‘Gestapo’
There is no good strategy for choosing when to risk family, community, religion, civil liberties and life itself
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News Josh Shapiro traces bid for Pennsylvania governor to his childhood work for Soviet Jews
In an interview, Shapiro says this is the first time a Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, presents an ‘existential threat’ to democracy
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Fast Forward Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services
“Set it and forget it” went wildly wrong at one Minneapolis-area synagogue.
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Food The perfect low-cost Shabbat recipe for inflationary times: honey-glazed turkey legs
I received the dread email from my favorite kosher butchers, and there is a good chance you have too. A sincere apology for increasing prices, an explanation of supply chain issues and inflation. I know kosher butchers are doing their best in a difficult situation. I took a quick glance at their website: How much…
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Food When your oven breaks, make fried apple pie
The house was clean, the chicken and kugel roasted, and a handsome apple cake waited on the counter. All that was left to do was make salad. The pretty salad bowl from our wedding registry, the one I barely use, was at the top of the tall pantry. My husband would be home in 10…
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Culture At 95, Shaindel Schreiber is still dispensing babka and advice on the Lower East Side
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