The Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America has sent a communication to all members of the New York State Legislature, signed by its president, Dr. Bernard Drachman, urging the enactment into law of a ...

Plaintiff Gerald Groff is a Sunday Sabbath observer whose religious beliefs dictate that Sunday is meant for worship and rest. Groff's inability to receive a reasonable accommodation from his employer ...

The House Committee on the District of Columbia last week held hearings on the Lankford bill, which is proposed by the Lord’s Day Alliance to make Washington the model city of the country. The bill ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A decade ago the U.S. Postal Service announced it was teaming up with Amazon to do something it had never done before: making deliveries on Sunday. While aiming to regain ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that could reverse a decades-old precedent and expand the rights of workers seeking accommodations from employers due to their ...

In 2019, North Dakota lawmakers abolished their state’s Sunday-trading ban. Going back to the 19th century, business owners had faced jail time and a fine for keeping their doors open Sunday mornings.

With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just around the corner, I revisit perhaps the most important U.S. Supreme Court decision in a generation for Shabbat observers. For so many decades, extending more ...

A three-panel U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, however, with one judge dissenting, held that the accommodation Groff sought (exemption from Sunday work) would cause an undue hardship on ...

Find today’s readings here. The holiness of the Sabbath is a fundamental feature of Israel’s religion. The belief that every seventh day belongs to God, and that “resting with God on the seventh day” ...

The Jewish case against the projected reform of the calendar by the insertion of “blank days” which would make the Sabbath a movable day in relation to the week, was explained to-day to the League of ...

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 ...