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

A Sense of Shabbat Worship

  |   Nov 28, 2008 12:00 AM
by Rabbi Victor S. AppellDirector, Small Congregations, Union for Reform Judaism Just yesterday at dinner, my seven year old son asked why we never sign him and his brother up...

Reclaiming our profound identity on Shabbat

  |   Nov 21, 2008 12:00 AM
by Dr. Carol Ochs, Adjunct Professor of Jewish Religious ThoughtHebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion - New YorkExcerpted from Dr. Ochs' keynote address at the Union's Shabbat Symposium, January 2007...

Because Tomorrow is Shabbat

  |   Nov 21, 2008 12:00 AM
By dcc Join with me now: (To the tune of "We're Off to See the Wizard") Today is Yom Shishi, Yom Shishi is day six, Yom Shishi is day six...

Closed on Shabbat

  |   Nov 11, 2008 12:00 AM
By JanetheWriterA recent post on her blog by Rabbi Phyllis Sommer (aka Ima on (and off) the Bima) reminds me that Baruch College could learn a thing or two from Isaac...