A parent council in heavily Jewish Brooklyn held a “special meeting” on a Friday evening in January, knowingly excluding anyone observing Shabbat from the public forum, according to outraged community ...

Three divisions of U. S. citizens are compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, ...

Jewish students who do not use electricity on the Sabbath recently received metal dorm keys to use from sundown on Fridays to sundown on Saturdays. Since religious restrictions prohibit the use of ...

My celebration of Shabbat, the traditional Jewish Sabbath, is a rather sedate, internal affair: long Friday night dinners with friends and family, leading worship at my synagogue on Saturday, and ...

When the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes, as occurs aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it's in orbit, how does a Jew observe the Sabbath? The proposition is no riddle. It was a real-life ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- The first Israeli in space, Ilan Ramon, said Saturday he was too busy with science experiments aboard shuttle Columbia to observe the Jewish Sabbath. "I didn't even have the chance ...