#tweetyourshabbat is a global movement founded by Carly Pildis, celebrating the struggle and joy of getting Shabbat on the table every week. This is a place for real dinners and real conversations about Jewish life. Join us at Forward in sharing what...

Editor's update (March 17): Due to COVID-19 concerns, this retreat is being rescheduled for next year. Every other year the folks at Nishmah host a Shabbat retreat designed to bring together local Jewish women of many generations, affiliations and life...

I was edged out on Friday evening. The carefully planned operation was carried out by grandson No. 2, the one with the red hair.“Move over, Pop. I’ll do it,” he said firmly, prodding me in the ribs with a sharp elbow.It’s like this: I say the...

Faith in the museumArts & Faith St. Louis and the St. Louis Art Museum have collaborated to provide specially designed Interfaith Tours that focus on artworks reflecting a wide range of faith traditions and inspire questions and conversations among...

In our desire to make the graduation experience better for all, the Parkway School Board and administration inadvertently lost sight of the needs of our Jewish students, each as important as any other, and their proud families who had waited for their...

TEL AVIV — Last Shabbat (July 21) was different than any Shabbat I’ve ever experienced. I was invited by my friend Talia to have Shabbat with her student advisor’s family in Jerusalem. Talia told me that we were going to go past the green line...

This week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim, literally means “laws,” and contains a large array of interpersonal civil commandments and regulations. Just before this portion, the Torah teaches about the building of an altar to G-d. The altar, which symbolizes...

This coming Shabbat in communities the world over, the public reading of the Sefer Bereshit (the Book of Genesis) will be drawn to a close as we chant, study and quest to find existential meaning in the words of Parashat Vayechi — the final few chapters...

This Shabbat, we read Ha’azinu, the second-to-last portion in the Torah. This Torah portion is written in two narrow columns like a poem or song and is often referred to as a song. But why does the Torah, a book of history and law, end with song?The...

That semitrailer driver you just passed on the highway might do a pretty decent job chanting the Shabbat blessing. That is, if the trucker is Neal DuBro.DuBro, 34, is a big-rig driver and the son of Cantor Paul DuBro. Neal never wanted to a rabbi, but...

In a world in which we value action, speed, productivity and rapid-fire response, perhaps the most incredible thing to ask of a person is to simply stop.Yet, that is exactly what the Torah commands us to do.In this week’s Torah portion, we are commanded...