Five months ago, I arrived at HBI for the spring semester as a scholar-in-residence. This is the first time in my life spending a long period outside of Israel. As the child of a captain and a scholar ...

Last week, I impulsively decided to host my first Shabbat diner. Like buying a far too expensive pair of black patent leather pumps, I had hastily decided to embark on this meal on a gutsy whim with ...

“It was the first Shabbat in my life that I observed according to halacha [Jewish law],” she continued. “On that day, I took upon myself to keep Shabbat, and since then, I have kept Shabbat throughout ...

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Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, the chief rabbi of South Africa, and his wife, Gina, started The Shabbat Project, a global movement to encourage Jews of all levels of faith to observe Shabbat, in 2013.