The goal of Shabbat is to take time away from continually creating and instead foster understanding, build bridges within our diverse community, and really see one another.

Presumably with Gelman’s assurance that the Shabbat Congress would be apolitical, the Rebbe did send a lengthy 22 Shevat (February 9), 1942 letter to the Congress, in which he emphasized the dangero ...

Since Oct. 7, many “are definitely looking for ways to connect to their Judaism and discover what it really means to be a Jew,” Rabbi Zev Pomeranz told JNS.