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NO, YOU CAN’T USE A DIPTYQUE CANDLE FOR SHABBAT. Help! I’m Shopping for Judaica for the Very First Time
NO, YOU CAN’T USE A DIPTYQUE CANDLE FOR SHABBAT. Help! I’m Shopping for Judaica for the Very First Time

By Mathew Swenson

Shopping for Judaica is something I’ve never done. Now that Chanukah is around the corner, I’ve been rethinking about what it means to own Judaica, which feels like a step...
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Shabbat Is a Salve, and a Scene
Shabbat Is a Salve, and a Scene

By Mathew Swenson

After pandemic separation and a recent surge in antisemitism, more young people — Jewish and not — seem to be celebrating the sabbath. Thursday is not technically Shabbat, but on...
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Whom Have You Brought to Shabbat? Two New Yorkers find a way to introduce unobservant Jews to a ritual of respite.
Whom Have You Brought to Shabbat? Two New Yorkers find a way to introduce unobservant Jews to a ritual of respite.

By Mathew Swenson

Shai Schmidt no longer counts the Shabbat dinner as part of his typical Friday night. Yet having grown up as part of a traditional family in Jerusalem, the rituals are familiar:...
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NO, YOU CAN’T USE A DIPTYQUE CANDLE FOR SHABBAT. Help! I’m Shopping for Judaica for the Very First Time
NO, YOU CAN’T USE A DIPTYQUE CANDLE FOR SHABBAT. Help! I’m Shopping for Judaica for the Very First Time

By Mathew Swenson

Shopping for Judaica is something I’ve never done. Now that Chanukah is around the corner, I’ve been rethinking about what it means to own Judaica, which feels like a step...
Read more
Whom Have You Brought to Shabbat? Two New Yorkers find a way to introduce unobservant Jews to a ritual of respite.
Whom Have You Brought to Shabbat? Two New Yorkers find a way to introduce unobservant Jews to a ritual of respite.

By Mathew Swenson

Shai Schmidt no longer counts the Shabbat dinner as part of his typical Friday night. Yet having grown up as part of a traditional family in Jerusalem, the rituals are familiar:...
Read more
Shabbat Is a Salve, and a Scene
Shabbat Is a Salve, and a Scene

By Mathew Swenson

After pandemic separation and a recent surge in antisemitism, more young people — Jewish and not — seem to be celebrating the sabbath. Thursday is not technically Shabbat, but on...
Read more