Beren loses quadruple overtime thriller

Published on 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

Published on February 4, 2013

On a recent Friday night, a group of 20-something foodies gathered to celebrate Shabbat.

Day 85 - Why I’m Reading the Whole Talmud… Again

By Salvador Litvak
Published on November 8, 2012

How to bring religion into politics

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on 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

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on 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.

Poll: Most Israeli Jews keep kosher, practice some Sabbath rituals

Published on January 30, 2012

More than four of every five Israeli Jews believe in God and three-quarters of Israeli Jews keep kosher, according to a survey.

Joe Lieberman scaled political heights, but wants his legacy to be the Sabbath

Published on August 8, 2011

Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelical. The Independent senator from Connecticut -- and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics...

With the over-abundance of Synagogues in O.C., I had to pick this one!

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 4, 2011

Lieberman writes book on Sabbath

Published on 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

Published on 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.

This 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.

VIDEO:  Obama roasts Emanuel, says he’s the ‘Angel of Death’ for GOP

By The Web Guy
Published on November 10, 2008

Barack Obama: Shabbos goy

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 22, 2008

Music lovers get presents for composer Reich’s birthday

By George Robinson
Published on October 5, 2006

Steve Reich, composer, turns 70 and wonders what all the fuss is about.

The Sabbath Rap

By Gaby Friedman
Published on January 26, 2006

Welcome to Hip Hop Shabbat.

On Shabbat, Stay Cool as a Cucumber

By Lisa J. Solomon
Published on August 5, 2004

Since they were Orthodox and didn't use appliances on the Sabbath, Oma had an array of simple but wonderful dishes she prepared in advance to be eaten cold. In the Miami heat, her Cucumber Dill Salad was one of my favorites.

Bubbie’s Menorah Miracle

By Rabbi Eli Hecht
Published on December 18, 2003

Bubbie, my sweet grandmother, is a small woman, barely 5-feet tall. Her candelabra wasn't just a candleholder used for the Sabbath and Chanukah lights. It was a family symbol; a magnet that brought family and friends together.

Kick Off the Year Rolling in Dough

By Rivka Tal
Published on September 25, 2003

As most people know, challah is the braided egg-rich loaf of bread that we traditionally eat on the Sabbath and holidays -- two loaves of challah at each of the three Shabbat meals.

The Great Jewish Hope

By Carin Davis
Published on September 18, 2003

Dmitriy Salita doesn't fight on the Sabbath, which gives his competition a much-needed day of rest from this powerful junior welterweight.

Parshat Yitro

By Abby Gilad
Published on January 23, 2003

In Parshat Yitro, God gives the Israelites the Ten Commandments.

Creating a Sacred Space

By Elliot Fein
Published on August 1, 2002

In 1978, when I first applied to college, I didn't know what I wanted to study as an undergraduate. I left the space blank on the college application form where I was supposed to indicate an intended major. Someone in the admissions office, based on my grade point average and my achievement test scores, took the liberty and placed me in a major called leisure studies.

Actor of ‘Favor’

By Amy Klein
Published on January 24, 2002

"I am not Menachem." So says Israeli heartthrob Aki Avni, referring to his character in "Time of Favor," the Israeli psychological thriller opening in Los Angeles movie theaters Feb 1. The film, winner of six Israeli Oscars last year, including picture of the year, tells the story of a religious settler army unit in which one student, Pini, takes to heart his rabbi's ideological rantings about the Temple Mount, and crazily decides to blow it up.

A Mostly Jewish Festival

By Wendy J. Madnick
Published on July 13, 2000

Q: When does a fence equal freedom?
A: When it's an eruv.
On Sun., July 2 the Jewish community of Northridge will celebrate the official initiation of its new eruv, allowing observant Jews the ability to carry on the Sabbath within its domain.The project was initiated more than 10 years ago by members of Young Israel of Northridge, at that time the only traditional Jewish community in the North Valley. They created the North Valley Eruv Society, which eventually expanded to include members of surrounding congregations, such as Temple Ramat Zion, Em Habanim and Chabad of Northridge.

Creative Rest

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on October 7, 1999

During the past few months, I have had contact with a friendly pastor, who is sincerely concerned about the future of the Jewish people both here and in Israel.

A Sabbath of Comfort

By Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
Published on May 20, 1999

Thursday was Tisha B'av -- the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av -- the day on which we fast, pray and commemorate the tragedy of our people's past. According to tradition, many of the worst catastrophes to befall the Jewish people took place on Tisha B'av: The destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem, the Crusades, the expulsion from Spain, the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. All of it -- all of the pain and the shame of the past tragedies -- comes crashing down upon us each Tisha B'av.

Hostile Intimidation

By Eric Silver
Published on November 26, 1998

Every Saturday afternoon, spot on 5 p.m., through the summer and into autumn, a squad of Jerusalem police clip-clopped on horseback past my house on Rehov Hanevi'im, the Street of the Prophets.