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Recipes Shabbat Brunch With Strawberries
Recipe suggestions for Shabbat Saturday breakfast or brunch include strawberry borscht (below) and the author’s world’s best strawberry jam. Read: Make: 3 Strawberry-Scented Cakes for Shabbat You really ought to make a small amount of the World’s Best Strawberry Jam to experience what you’ve been missing. This is produced without the aid of commercial pectin,…
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Breaking News Observant Jews Win Hamptons Eruv Battle
It’s another win for the Jews in the Hampton eruv wars. A federal judge has ruled that religious boundary markers called “lechis” may be attached to telephone poles in the Southampton municipality. The decision comes a little over a year after a similar ruling was made in Westhampton beach, and clears all legal obstacles to…
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Breaking News After Charleston, Solidarity Shabbat With Blacks Planned
An array of Jewish groups representing every major religious stream has declared this coming Shabbat one of solidarity with the African American community in the wake of the Charleston, S.C. mass killing. A release Tuesday including among its signatories representative groups of the Conservative, Reform, Orthodox and Reconstructionist streams “to speak out in synagogues this…
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Culture Watch Frum March To Protest Sabbath-Violating Teens in Lakewood
Lakewood, New Jersey, is a bustling Haredi town organized around its grand yeshiva and dominated by strict rabbinic authority. So when a few rebellious teenagers took to hanging out by the lake on Sabbath afternoons — violating Sabbath rules by smoking and using their cellphones — the yeshiva’s head rabbis gathered dozens of men to march…
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Opinion The Change-the-World Shabbat Dinner
Good deeds. I’ve been struck by how many Jewish holidays carry the message that we should be helping someone else. On Rosh Hashanah, we recite that tzedakah — charity — along with prayer and repentance, will lessen the severity of God’s decree. The Yom Kippur fast is meant to cleanse our souls, yes, but also…
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Culture Bring on the Portable Shabbat
Jewish funding organizations have long been investing in Israel trips, day school, summer camp, and, more recently, children’s books. And now, thanks to grants from the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life and the Paul E. Singer Foundation, young adults can secure funds to execute an age-old weekly Jewish ritual: hosting Shabbat dinners. Called OneTable, the…
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Breaking News Jewish Valedictorian Delivers Shabbat Commencement Speech on Video
A graduating senior at Binghamton University in New York will deliver the commencement speech via a pre-recorded video since it falls on Shabbat. Don Greenberg, of Teaneck, New Jersey, will stand at the podium on stage during the Binghamton University’s Watson School of Engineering commencement on May 16, but will not speak live. Orthodox Jews…
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News Does Switch Really Make It Kosher To Switch Lights on Shabbat?
(JTA) — It promises a revolutionary innovation that could transform Jewish Sabbath observance. By changing the way a light switch works, the patented Kosher Switch offers a novel — and, its backers say, kosher — way to turn light switches (and, perhaps, other electrical appliances) on and off during Shabbat, circumventing one of the Sabbath’s…
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