Interactive Shabbat Blessings
Below are some of the essential ritual ingredients for celebrating a Friday night Shabbat meal. Click on the...
How to Celebrate Shabbat at Home with Your Partner
Imagine looking forward to Fridays, not only because it’s the start of the weekend, but because you can make...
Shabbat Basics
Let’s Get to the Shabbat Basics
A cornerstone of Jewish life at home and in Jewish communities,...
How To Do Havdalah
Havdalah, which means “separation” is a special candle lighting ceremony that marks...
#FancyFriday Is for Everyone (Especially During Quarantine!)
The days and weeks are all running together as we are adjusting to this new normal in self-quarantine. Have...
Shabbat Cheat Sheet
If you’re new to Judaism or looking to learn how to incorporate more Jewish practices into your life or how...
I Started Doing Shabbat and I Can’t Stop
My apartment has become a secret cave of imagination. Sometimes it is the park where Peppa Pig plays with her...
Unplug for Less Doing and More Being
Here’s what my “To Do” List on a recent day looked like:
To Do:
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How to Celebrate Shabbat…When You Miss Friday Night
Whoops! Missed lighting those Friday night candles? When the beginning of Shabbat comes and goes and you’re...
Shabbat (with Kids) Cheat Sheet
If you’re new to Judaism or looking to learn how to share more Jewish practices with your family, Shabbat is...
How To Host And Do Jewish Shabbat Dinner: 101
Need more information about Shabbat? Check out our Shabbat Made Easy Guide
We also have a Shabbat cheat sheet...
Welcoming the Sabbath
In July of 1999, at the end of my very first week at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial...
Shabbat Unbound
By Jared David Berezin
Many years ago I was in a book club and read a collection of essays called Righteous...
Camp: the Shabbat of the Year
Last Friday morning I took my cup of coffee and my smoothie outside to my patio. I sunk into an Adirondack...
Celebrating Two Faiths Without My Parents’ Blessing
By Sheri Kupres
Sam’s baby naming ceremony (Sheri and Sam are the mother/baby on the right)
Thirteen...
I’m Down with Shabbat… After I Look Up What It Is
Like his other mother, my 4-month old son Sam is Jewish. I am not. I was born and raised Catholic. My mother...
What to Eat on Lenten Shabbat
I had the date on my calendar for weeks: a Shabbat dinner with some of the couples in my “Love and Religion”...
Birthdays, Hanukkah and Learning to Let Go
I was supposed to celebrate my birthday, which fell on the seventh night of Hanukkah with my husband Cameron...
Greeting Each Other at Shabbat Services
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July 22, 2015
An Interfaith-Inclusive Reading for Clergy to Welcome a Congregation on Shabbat
Welcome...
Judaism and Sabbath: Rules and Practices
You may have heard about a new program that we are starting up at InterfaithFamily/Bay Area called Meet Us at...
The Shabbat Excuse
Several years ago, my son’s 4-year-old classmate Sara was diagnosed with cancer. All of the families at our...
Friday Night Shabbat Dinner Recipes
The following is a guest blog post by Sarah & David Falk
It was a cool summer day in August down at the...
Family, Parenting Shabbat, Recipes, Shabbat, Shabbat Food, Shabbat Rituals
Interfaith Language Sensitivity
We here at InterfaithFamily believe, like the rabbis of old, that language is extremely important. The rabbis...
More Shabbat in the New Year?
There are more and more projects sprouting up around the country to encourage people to have Sabbath meals or...
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