Celebrating Shabbat in Your Home

Lighting the Shabbat candlesWhether you're just getting started with a Shabbat observance and need to know where to begin, or you want to enrich your knowledge and enliven your celebration... whether you are looking for adult study resources, guidance for your interfaith family, activities to engage children in Shabbat, or great music and recipes... this is the page to bookmark.

Embracing Shabbat in Your Congregation

Studying on ShabbatThe materials presented here have been developed to guide your congregation through a process of communal study about, reflection on and experimentation with Shabbat observance. Depending on the needs and interests of your congregation, the various sections of this program may be used individually or in combination.


Shabbat Idea Of The Week  
More Shabbat Resources  
Based on the Torah portion, these web-archived sheets include tips on how to have a family discussion with young children.
From the Shabbat BLOG

Talmud Torah

  |   May 30, 2008 12:00 AM
For a little Talmud Torah, study of Torah, this week, take a look at this great d'var Torah by Laurence Kaufman, which can be found at RJ.org, the Reform Movement's blog.Here's a little snippet to get you started.Enjoy, and Shabbat...

Dinner and a Movie

  |   May 26, 2008 12:00 AM
Mary Hofmann, one of our Hadracha'08 participants from Merced, California tells us about her weekly Shabbat traditions:"I didn't realize it, but I've been readopting Shabbat for some time. Our tiny, isolated congregation started having Erev Shabbat potlucks and lay services...

Attention, Attention!

  |   May 12, 2008 12:00 AM
Do you ever light the Shabbat candles and blank completely on the tune for the blessing? Do your children love singing the Birkat Hamazon from camp but you never learned the melody? Log onto the new Shabbat Blessings page to...

Eilu V'Eilu

  |   Apr 30, 2008 12:00 AM
This month, the URJ's Eilu V'Eilu online publication, a point/counterpoint dialogue between two scholars providing for active participation from readers, focused on Shabbat, and attempted to answer the following questions: What does Shabbat mean for today's Reform Jews? What Jewish...

The Truth Is...

  |   Apr 28, 2008 12:00 AM
"The truth is we can talk about the joys and meaning of observing Shabbat until we're blue in the face and it won't really make much difference. It's like trying to describe the taste of chocolate to someone who has...