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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

kabbalat shabbat

The musical Kabbalat Shabbat service taking place weekly at Jerusalem cultural center Beit Avi Chai, including November 3, 2023 at 1 p.m. (Courtesy Beit Avi Chai)
November 2, 2023, 12:31 pm
Shai Tsabari, fellow musicians to welcome Shabbat with the displaced
Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai cultural center is hosting free and online events for those evacuated from their homes in the north and south, along with local residents
By Jessica Steinberg
'Tefila' features David Broza on guitar and vocals, the 25-voice Moran Choir from Israel, gospel singers from New York City, and, on bass, the Israeli-American Omer Avital, who also did the orchestrations. (Courtesy Temple Emanu-El/ via JTA)
May 3, 2022, 3:44 am
Israeli musician David Broza helps NYC synagogue ‘re-envision’ Friday night services
Secular singer says he reached musical enlightenment when he read the ancient Hebrew prayers for his new album ‘Tefila,’ commissioned by Temple Emanu-El to attract new audiences
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Shabbat UNPLUGGED invites Israelis to come out on their balconies on Fridays at 5 p.m., to welcome the Sabbath together (Courtesy Israeli Associations of Community Centers)
April 10, 2020, 12:15 pm
Online, a virtual congregation rises to greet the Shabbat queen
Shabbat UNPLUGGED brings Israeli artists on Zoom and Facebook live for an abbreviated Kabbalat Shabbat service
By Jessica Steinberg
Men pray outside a synagogue in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, on March 22, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
March 23, 2020, 5:01 am
Neighbors welcome Shabbat together from safety of porches
Friday night sees songs and prayers ring out in the streets, as people navigate a coronavirus Sabbath without a synagogue
By Jessica Steinberg
President Ruby Rivlin reads Israeli classic 'Flat To Rent' by Lea Goldberg online on Thursday, March 19, 2020, during the coronavirus crisis (Courtesy Ruby Rivlin Facebook page)
March 20, 2020, 1:02 pm
Get online to exercise, forage, pray and even hike during your home stay
Everyone’s going online right now, offering services and classes for free during the extended quarantine caused by the COVID-19 crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
Seniors from Sun City in Palm Springs, California gather for Shabbat dinner at their local Wendy's fast food restaurant, as seen in 'Wendy's Shabbat' short documentary film (Courtesy of 3 Penny)
February 16, 2018, 8:17 pm
Jewish seniors fight isolation with a fast food community in ‘Wendy’s Shabbat’
Filmmaker Rachel Myers’s 88-year-old grandmother stars in a short documentary film that is striking a chord with online and festival viewers
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Women and girls participate in a challah bake in Costa Rica as part of the world-wide Shabbat Project 2017. (Courtesy: Shabbat Project via JTA)
October 30, 2017, 7:02 pm
Shabbat Project reaches more than 1 million people in 97 countries
Events include an interfaith unity bake bringing together Muslim and Jewish children at a local preschool in a suburb of Sydney
By JTA
Debra Band
September 24, 2016, 1:11 am
Debra Band
A song for the eyes
An artist shares her ‘visual midrash,’ illuminations of the psalms that welcome the Sabbath
Havdallah celebration underneath the Shabbos tent at The Camping Trip. (Jake Sojcher)
August 31, 2016, 10:25 pm
‘Jewish Woodstock’ stokes spiritual sparks at NY-area music festival
Without electricity or the perpetual city buzz, young Jews experience a rustic Shabbat at the Camping Trip and other summer retreats
By Madison Margolin
The rabbi who leads the weekly Jewish prayer service at Deer Valley ski resort sometimes alters the traditional prayer for rain to a prayer for snow. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
February 15, 2016, 4:48 am
You are welcome at the most uplifting Shabbat service in the world
Nestled off a steep blue-on-white intermediate trail, Friday evening prayers start promptly in Utah’s Deer Valley Ski Schule
By Uriel Heilman
Ilana Garber
December 26, 2015, 1:58 pm
Ilana Garber
Lighting a Havdalah candle for my family
The brief ceremony to mark the end of Sabbath provides a 5-sense lesson in Jewish continuity
Karina Zilberman, center, the creator of Shababa at the 92Y, training participants of the Shababa Network. (Ross Den Photography/via JTA)
September 5, 2015, 2:09 am
NY’s playful Shababa family program to export its wonder and awe
From nannies to bubbies, all are now welcome to experience joyful mindfulness in their own communities
By Lucy Cohen Blatter
Penny Schwartz
August 1, 2015, 1:02 am
Penny Schwartz
A musical Shabbat at Tanglewood
A Kabbalat Shabbat service ushered in both the day and the music of Shulamit Ran, Yehudi Wyner, and Vadim Gluzman
The sanctuary of Boston’s Vilna Shul, including the sloped women’s gallery in the background, as photographed on July 17, 2015. (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)
July 29, 2015, 1:57 pm
Layers of colorful history revealed at Boston’s ‘comeback shul’
Beloved by Leonard Nimoy, Beacon Hill’s tucked away Vilna Shul — the city’s oldest — is the scene of Jewish renewal for the second time in a century
By Matt Lebovic
'Ripped Stockings' by Angela Strassheim, from the Israel Museum's 'Happy Birthday' exhibit (Courtesy Israel Museum)
July 17, 2015, 2:08 pm
Summer is in full swing, with much fun to be had
From drive-in movies and outdoor concerts to trampoline parks and ice cream cones, there’s something for everyone
By Jessica Steinberg
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