The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

Yet, even as the Sabbath—via the weekend—has indelibly rooted itself in many cultures worldwide, the biblical concept of the Sabbath is much more than a weekly day of rest. The Hebrew Bible at ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

We are a week into daylight saving time, and some of us are not getting the rest we need! It seems to take a couple of weeks for our bodies to adjust to the one hour difference every time we change ...

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This is the only place in the Bible where the phrase "the Lord’s day" occurs. If his vision occurred on Saturday, St. John would have written "the Sabbath" instead of using a new phrase.

We Christians are calling on our beloved President Trump and his team to aggressively remove all barriers to Israel’s ...

The opening words of Parshat Tetzaveh are: “You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives ...

When asked to picture an image that represents the essence of Purim, one is likely to immediately conjure up a mask, gragger ...