On Shabbat we light at least two candles – one for shamor and one for zachor. Shabbat candles (credit: Wikimedia Commons) What does it mean to keep Shabbat, to honor and respect the sanctity of ...

After a little girl from Ashdod suffered serious skin burns and her dress caught fire while lighting Shabbat candles in her kindergarten on Friday, her mother and Kaplan Medical Center doctors ...

The restriction feels particularly unfair because I know other residents burn candles for Shabbat. Burning incense is an important part of my religious practice, and the restriction seems unequal ...