Though instruments were used on Shabbat and holidays in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, their use in worship was outlawed after the destruction of the Second Temple in deference to the state of ...

“The wider intrusion of technology into Shabbat and Yom Tov worship will require greater fences to preserve the sanctity of the day,” he wrote. “It is a short step from watching services to ...

People of faith regard the Sabbath not just as a day of rest, but also of worship; for so it was designed by Almighty God. But people, being perverse and wayward, has ever sought, and indeed have ...

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you ...

During the festival of Hanukkah, the menorah must be lit before the Shabbat candles, and on Saturday evening the menorah can only be lit after the end of Shabbat.

The civil rights icon had visited Temple Beth-El in 1967 and delivered a speech in which he denounced inequality, violence on ...

In the UK, this is English. Reform synagogues hold services on Shabbat. Men and women sit together and often musical instruments are played.