Shabbat | Israel news feed

  In an incredible act of solidarity and kindness, Mayor of Highland Park Elsie Foster hand-delivered the message of the hostages' return to every synagogue in town so that they could share it with their congregations. The news of the hostage rescue in Israel broke on Shabbat, so observant Jews in the New Jersey county […]

Israel's ban on infrastructure work on Shabbat has no parallel anywhere in the enlightened world. This government of the ultra-Orthodox and the far right isn't even capable of building an overpass on Shabbat

Temple Beth Am is not the first synagogue to have its Shabbat services disrupted by pro-Palestinian protests.

  Last Friday night, the Nitzan family invited for Shabbat dinner soldiers posted to beef up security in the community of Shiloh in the Binyamin region. Fifteen minutes before Shabbat, Yaakov, the father of the family, saw a group of soldiers gathered outside the house. "I wonder why they are early," he asked himself and […]

As war rages in Gaza, Israel's internal fight over public transportation grinds to a halt as buses, trains and airplanes continue to operate on Shabbat.