Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” begins Psalm 92. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy written every year. Here are five of the best recent ...
The Shabbat Project was introduced in South Africa in 2013 to quite astonishing effect. On the Shabbat over which it ran, close to 70 percent of the country’s 75,000 Jews kept Shabbat in full, most ...
As a journalist for The Atlantic, Yair Rosenberg is known for his writing about politics, culture, and religion. He’s written for Tablet; his newsletter Deep Shtetl has a significant following; and of ...
Summer is upon us. Coats and scarves are swapped for light linens and other easy breezy fabrics (see you next year, puffer). Soy lattes give way to iced coffee, and cravings for soup morph into ...
Listening to “The Shabbat Lounge” (Craig N Co.), the latest album in Craig Taubman’s “Lounge” series, your first thought is, “Gee, this is such a natural, why didn’t he begin the series with this one ...
As cantor at Touro Synagogue on St. Charles Avenue, David Mintz is in charge of all things musical, enhancing worship through sacred sound. But he says it wasn’t until he organized and led his first ...
From its start in 1906, A Bintel Brief was a pillar of the Forward, helping generations of Jewish immigrants learn how to be American. Now our columnists are helping people navigate the complexities ...
Shabbat is a Jewish tradition when friends and family come together every Friday night and Saturday to relax and reflect as the workweek recedes. Some Jews are more observant than others: where ...
Prior to Cantor Kevin Margolius’ arrival in New Orleans from New Haven, Connecticut, his predecessors at Touro Synagogue briefed him on the annual Jazz Fest Shabbat. For three decades, the popular ...
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