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, ...

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 I lived on campus last summer, I had an overwhelming amount of free time on the weekends. On Friday nights, I would go to Shabbat dinners hosted by Jewish friends. We would pack into sweltering ...

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 ...

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 ...