Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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Food Two great recipes for a vegan Shabbat
If you’ve been curious about going vegan or living a more plant-based lifestyle, this Shabbat may be your chance to try it out. On Friday, OneTable and Jewish Veg are coming together for a virtual, mutli-city event in Washington D.C., Miami, and Atlanta to empower Jewish communities to host inclusive, sustainable, and intentional Shabbat dinners…
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Recipes A Shabbat Smoked Salmon Salade Niçoise perfect for the heat
Is the oven on or is my back door open? It is impossible to tell at this point. It’s the kind of hot that makes you want to lie on the cold floor in front of a fan covered in ice packs. It’s too hot to even swim. It’s definitely way too hot to turn…
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Culture Your Jewish guide to Pride 2021
We are officially in Pride Month, and this year, with the return of some in-person events, it feels particularly festive. Yes, we’re still not through with the pandemic, but in-person Pride Shabbatot on sunny beaches, special seminars and yes, even parades are back on. And there are also still plenty of virtual options, offering the…
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Food Brown sugar chocolate sheet cake with chocolate labneh frosting
This is the perfect time for sheet cake. It feeds a crowd, it’s colorful and frankly, everyone loves it. A one bowl wonder with plenty of kids to lick the bowl after you make frosting – the easiest frosting ever. Ingredients Labneh Frosting 2 cups high quality chocolate chips 1 ½ cups labneh, room temperature…
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News Your weekend reads: Passover myths debunked, NJ’s top Jewish judge, and lessons from Boulder
Each week, Forward editors pick highlights from our coverage to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. You can download and print a PDF of those stories by clicking here, or click on any of the headlines below. Have a great weekend! Your Weekend Reads. (You can download and print a PDF of these stories by clicking…
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Culture Note to Georgia politicians: Sunday isn’t the Sabbath
Georgia Republicans recently passed a bill to eliminate early voting on Sunday. “I’d like one of the Republican members on this committee to give us a plain sense justification for that restriction,” demanded Sen. Chuck Schumer in a meeting of the Senate Rules and Administration committee; voting remains legal Monday-Saturday. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, of Mississippi,…
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Opinion This year, I learned the pain and beauty of praying outside
This essay originally appeared in the New York Jewish Week. Friday night. We are standing in a paved plaza beside Riverside Drive; the air is crisp, the fresh snow is sparkling like diamond dust in the setting sun. We are 6 feet apart and masked (I can’t wait for this combined phrase to become obsolete)….
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Yiddish World Let’s dump daylight saving time so our young kids can enjoy the Seder
Read this article in Yiddish Every Passover Seder night at my house, we – as well as many other Jewish families across the country – encounter the same scenario. According to Jewish law, the Seder can’t begin until the start of the new day, which is roughly an hour after sunset. Because Passover always falls…
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