Celebrating Shabbat at 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.

The Shabbat Initiative for Congregations

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  
Family Shabbat Table Talk
Based on the Torah portion, these web-archived sheets include tips on how to have a family discussion with young children.
Reform Voices of Torah
From the Shabbat BLOG

Let Shabbat Happen To You

  |   May 11, 2009 12:00 AM
By dcc Saturday afternoon until early Sunday morning I was at our friends' house for what was an extended and wonderful dinner and night of talking and relaxing when, after...

Galilee Diary - Green thoughts IV: Ponzi and Heschel

  |   Apr 7, 2009 12:00 AM
by Marc Rosenstein(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah) The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining...

Im ein kemach, ein Havdalah? I'm unconvinced.

  |   Feb 18, 2009 12:00 AM
By David A.M. Wilensky (Originally posted on The Reform Shuckle) A debate has raged this week at iWorship, the URJ's listserve for synagogue Ritual or Worship Committee members, regarding the...

Getting Yourself Organized for the Real World

  |   Feb 6, 2009 12:00 AM
By Jake Adler (First posted on the Kesher blog) Jake Adler shares his struggles to find balance in religious ritual, time management, and ultimately, life. My family has never been...