In the latest edition of the JOFA Journal (Fall 2021), Dr. Michelle Shain, director of the Center for Communal Research at the Orthodox Union,
Avi Garelick is the director of the Prozdor Hebrew High School at JTS and a student in the urban planning department of Hunter College. This
…for me who works at a desk in an office – or these days at home – the toil of my weekdays is mental, not physical. Screen time in particular has become the toil of the work week, the activity I so desperately crave separation from.
A break from labor, even the labor of social change, may be as radical as the work itself. Shabbat elevates to new importance in the Trump era.
Reflections on Shabbat by a soon-to-be rebbetzin.