(JNS) When Sasha Litnaitzky-Drutz and David Drutz of Toronto held their first soup-to-nuts Shabbat on Dec. 22, the guest of honor was 6,000 miles away. Now in their second year of marriage, the couple ...

Growing up in what she calls a quasi-religious Jewish family, Roberta Stetson said she always felt something was missing. Later in life, the New York City woman had a busy career as an assistant ...

Why is Sabbath-day football even an issue addressed at BYU? How was it possible for me to read, 'It may seem members of the church have a lot of freedom of interpretation when it comes to the Sabbath ...

If your events have not been listed in the past month, go to our site and fill out your information at www.news-press.com/submitevent. Last month we changed the ...

The following remarks are edited from an hourlong sermon delivered at the biennial of the Union of Reform Judaism held in San Diego on Dec. 15. …. In the last half century, working patterns have ...

Genesis Chapter 1 gives a narration of God’s creations over a six-day period. Genesis 2:1-3 then concludes; “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh ...

We knew that this past Shabbat was not going to be an ordinary day of rest, but we didn’t know how harrowing it would be. I got my first request to host guests for Shabbat lunch, even as the fires had ...

In my circles it used to be the custom on Sunday mornings that the pastor would sit on the platform as the pianist played a prelude and the saints found their seats. I’d watch them, nodding and ...