This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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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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Food TweetShabbat: New Year’s Brunch for Shabbat Dinner
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat 2020 is…
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Food Chill out: It’s a snowy Shabbat
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat For millions…
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Community Trading places, Jewishly
Most Saturday afternoons, at around 3:00, I sit on a bench across the street from my apartment waiting for a friend to join me (masked, of course, and at a distance of at least six feet). My friend is Orthodox, and for most of her life she has taken Shabbat afternoon walks. These days I…
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Food Corn Risotto: One last bite of the summer that never was
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat The summer…
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Food It’s OK to need your mom ( and her lemon squares)
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat After seven…
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Food An heirloom tomato tart for a socially-distant picnic Shabbat I #TweetYourShabbat
#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what you’ll be eating and how your feeling this week at #TweetYourShabbat I love…
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