Tag: Shabbat
Annual Shabbat Project sees unprecedented participation in US, Israel and worldwide
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...
Thousands of learners connect with Torah and each other before High Holidays
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...
More than 2,500 expected at OU ‘Torah New York’ learning event at Citi Field
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 disrupts Shabbat services, blocks University of Texas Chabad entrance
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’...
Popular Shalva band won’t play Eurovision due to Shabbat schedule
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 pop star turns down Eurovision performance due to rehearsals on Shabbat
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...
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...
What happened when 150 El Al travelers got stranded in Greece for Shabbat
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...
Orthodox Jewish groups urge Supreme Court to overturn 41-year-old precedent
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...
Shabbat in Amsterdam
My alarm blared obnoxiously at 8 AM--a wakeup call to rub the sleep from my eyes and prepare for another day of my winter break travels in Amsterdam. Nervously tiptoeing around my sleeping friend...