Even though Sunday is the first day of the week, its inclusion in the weekend implies that it lives in Saturday’s shadow.

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

On the first day of the week ... Constantine replaced the Sabbath with the pagan "DAY OF THE SUN", i.e. Sunday. Now it is true that the Old Testament says the "seventh day" but assigning that ...

Pickle martinis, members-only events, Fashion Week mashups — every Friday night is special at these new-school Shabbat ...

Some sages call this Torah portion of Yitro – a miniature Shavuot. Though we are not gathering publicly to stay up all night, ...

Some may, however, interpret according to Rashi and the Ran, ibid., that the halacha involving a person in a desert is a rabbinic injunction in remembrance of Shabbos and, consequently, lacks ...

Man was created on the sixth day, so Adam and Eve’s first full day was on the seventh day ... to ‘Remember the Sabbath’ seriously? We take it as a suggestion, if we have time, rather than a command.

The Israelites are hungry. For the last few weeks, they’ve been eating the crumbs of the matza they brought with them from ...