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Marathon runner Bracha “Beatie” Deutsch. Source: https://beatiedeutsch.com/.

Shabbat-scheduled women’s marathon may dash Israeli’s run in 2020 Olympics

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A marathon runner in Israel may have to put her Olympic dreams on hold after a women’s marathon in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games has been moved from Sunday to Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath...
A women's challah bake in Cali, Colombia. Credit: The Shabbat Project.

Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide

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The seventh annual international Shabbat Project reached 1,685 cities and 106 countries across the world this year, attracting record numbers of participants in many of those cities. The 2019 Shabbat Project that took place from...
Participants flock to Citi Field for the third annual Torah New York event, Sept. 23, 2019. Credit: Orthodox Union.

Thousands of learners connect with Torah and each other before High Holidays

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Torah took the mound at Citi Field as the Orthodox Union fielded a team of 29 internationally renowned scholars, who led classes on a wide array of 31 subjects for around 2,500 participants, at...
Citi Field baseball park in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in New York City. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

More than 2,500 expected at OU ‘Torah New York’ learning event at Citi Field

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Leading rabbinic scholars, educators and Jewish communal leaders will be featured on Sunday at the Orthodox Union’s third annual Torah New York at Citi Field in New York City, where more than 2,500 men, women and...
IfNotNow activists picket outside the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at the University of Texas-Austin on Feb. 23, 2019, where former IDF soldier Leibel Mangel addressed Chabad attendees after services. Credit: IfNotNow/Facebook.

IfNotNow disrupts Shabbat services, blocks University of Texas Chabad entrance

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The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the anti-Israel group IfNotNow blocked the entrance of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at the school on Saturday and protested a former Israel Defense Forces’...
The Shalva band. Source: Shalva band website.

Popular Shalva band won’t play Eurovision due to Shabbat schedule

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The Shalva group, a beloved Israeli band featuring musicians with special needs, has dropped out of the Eurovision Song contest in May because compulsory rehearsals for the Saturday-night finals will take place on Shabbat. The...
Israeli Mizrahi singer Omer Adam performs in Modi’in on Aug. 28, 2011. Photo by Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90.

Israeli pop star turns down Eurovision performance due to rehearsals on Shabbat

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One of Israel’s most popular singers, Omer Adam, has rejected an offer to perform at the international singing competition Eurovision because rehearsals for the finale will be held on Shabbat. According to a statement, he...
An El Al airline plane at Ben-Gurion Airport on Aug. 17, 2016. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Religious customers threaten to boycott El Al for ‘Shabbat flight’ accusations, waiting for apology

A group of religious El Al customers planned to demonstratively cut up their membership cards at the airline’s Tel Aviv offices on Sunday in protest of what they are calling false accusations of violent...
Some of the 150 El Al passengers who unexpectedly spent a Shabbat together in Athens, Nov. 16, 2018. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

What happened when 150 El Al travelers got stranded in Greece for Shabbat

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Passengers on what started out as direct El Al flight LYO2 to Israel from New York arrived safely back in Israel early Sunday after a Shabbat-long diversion in Athens that gave 150 at-first extremely disgruntled travelers...
The Supreme Court of the United States. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Orthodox Jewish groups urge Supreme Court to overturn 41-year-old precedent

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An amicus curiae was filed last week on behalf of 10 Jewish organizations to support a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 41-year-old precedent that drastically limited a provision of the...