On this special Shabbat, Shabbat HaChodesh, the new month, we read from two Torahs. The additional special reading reminds us that we are entering the “first of months” and is apropos because it is ...

from the past that is not past as I learn from small print, which shows me that the books’ worldview, though old, is not outdated, as I attempt to point out in all verses that I mint. Their words jump ...

How does one determine the proper way to keep Shabbat? I get that question regularly from Jews who do not follow halacha traditionally, but who do not consider it irrelevant, and want a means of ...

The migration of print media to the web and digital devices has stirred society to ponder many Big Questions: Is Google making us stupid? Has technology short-circuited our children's attention spans?

Last fall, I read a couple of books and watched a few videos focused on Sabbath. Most Christians are familiar with the commandment: Keep holy the Sabbath day. It is frequently interpreted as “Go to ...

The Knesset plenum approved the preliminary reading of the “Hours of Work and Rest Bill,” which would prohibit forcing any Israeli, observant or non-observant, to work on Shabbat. The bill was ...

I felt nostalgic reading Danielle Shapiro’s “The Sabbath and the Printed Page” (Houses of Worship, July 7). I have fond memories from childhood of watching my parents read the Journal cover to ...

From floating cat heads to nearly burning alive. "What does all stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience." In 1953 The ...

Everyone needs a little sabbath these days. In the stressful days in which we live, it sometimes feels as if we are overwhelmed at every point with threats of coming down with a virus, losing a job or ...