The idea that household appliances and electronic gadgetry should be adapted to fit the increasingly techno-centric lifestyles of Sabbath-observant Jews has always seemed a tad counter-intuitive.

How does one determine the proper way to keep Shabbat? I get that question regularly from Jews who do not follow halacha traditionally, but who do not consider it irrelevant, and want a means of ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., Dec. 1 (JTA) — Chanukah is not only a holiday; it’s one of several Jewish new years. Judaism counts time by three synchronized clocks: the solar-lunar clock, the seven days ...