The idea that household appliances and electronic gadgetry should be adapted to fit the increasingly techno-centric lifestyles of Sabbath-observant Jews has always seemed a tad counter-intuitive.

On this special Shabbat, Shabbat HaChodesh, the new month, we read from two Torahs. The additional special reading reminds us that we are entering the “first of months” and is apropos because it is ...

How does one determine the proper way to keep Shabbat? I get that question regularly from Jews who do not follow halacha traditionally, but who do not consider it irrelevant, and want a means of ...