Tel Aviv eyeing way to let businesses open on Sabbath
Jewish Journal
September 4, 2013
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality is working to change a city by-law that bans businesses from opening on the Jewish Sabbath .
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Seeking a shul’s history
Jewish Journal
September 3, 2013
When Henry Leventon, his wife and three daughters attended their first Sabbath service at Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock (TBI) in 1976, the gabbai at the synagogue immediately approached.
Beren loses quadruple overtime thriller
Jewish Journal
March 1, 2013
Beren Academy, which made international headlines last year with its battle to avoid a forfeit in the Texas state boys\’ basketball tournament over a Sabbath scheduling conflict, lost a quadruple overtime game in the state semifinals.
Nice Jewish goys
Jewish Journal
February 4, 2013
On a recent Friday night, a group of 20-something foodies gathered to celebrate Shabbat.
How to bring religion into politics
Rabbi David Wolpe
August 15, 2012
For nearly two millennia politics was poison for the Jewish people. The principle aim in understanding the machinations of power was to make oppression less onerous. Great swaths of tradition that spoke to the exercise of power lay mostly unexplored. Today there is a resurgence of interest and I would like to highlight three crucial lessons from the anomalous historical experience of Judaism.
[UPDATED] Highway construction downs L.A. Eruv for Sabbath
Jonah Lowenfeld
June 15, 2012
The Los Angeles Community Eruv, which allows observant Jews to carry items within its restricted boundaries on the Sabbath, will not be in operation on the Shabbat that starts at sundown today, June 15 due to a break caused by construction on the 405 Freeway, according to a posting on the eruv’s website, laeruv.com.
Joe Lieberman scaled political heights, but wants his legacy to be the Sabbath
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2011
Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelical. The Independent senator from Connecticut — and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics…
Lieberman writes book on Sabbath
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2011
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman is writing a book on the benefits of the Sabbath. Lieberman (I-Conn.), who recently announced he will not run again, is co-writing the book with David Klinghoffer, according to Howard Books.
How the Sabbath keeps the Jewish people
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2010
To love Judaism is to know how much the Sabbath matters. But neither knowledge nor love is quite enough to move many Jews, perhaps most Jews, to observance, or even to the level of observance they feel, deep in their hearts, commanded to achieve.\n\nThis state of cognitive dissonance prevails even in Israel, where the non-enforcement of the many Sabbath laws on the books has the effect of deepening the divide, every Saturday, between observant Jews and everyone else.
Music lovers get presents for composer Reich’s birthday
George Robinson
October 5, 2006
Steve Reich, composer, turns 70 and wonders what all the fuss is about.
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