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A new national survey conducted for the Deseret News finds that Americans don’t pay as much attention to the Sabbath as we used to. Excerpt: Half of U.S. adults today (50 percent) say the Sabbath has ...

Before every Sabbath or Shabbat, some Jewish people begin preparing for synagogue and rest from work by lighting candles and baking challah. Some Jewish people live by religious laws that mean they ...

When Jerry Sigal was asked to explain what the Sabbath means to him, he turned to the Torah story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. When the Commandments were handed down, he said, it represented a ...

When I asked you, dear readers, in a recent column to share with me the ways you honor the Sabbath Day, I was anticipating a flood of responses from orthodox Jewish readers. I was therefore surprised ...

Many people observe the Sabbath by attending a worship service and continue to obey the fourth commandment by relaxing and taking time away from work the rest of the day. But for clergy, whose busiest ...

I am still steamed about Judge Bernal's decision in Harvest Rock. He found that California's absolute prohibition on indoor worship was permissible because people could still worship outdoors, without ...

The main chapel at Walter Reed Bethesda will host a Children’s Sabbath observance on Oct. 21 at 10:30 a.m. “Each year, during the third weekend of October, thousands of synagogues, churches, temples, ...