Shabbos Project connects Jews here, there, everywhere

(Cleveland Jewish News)

The concept is simple: Jews of all walks of life, from across the spectrum – religious, secular and traditional; young and old, from all corners of the world – uniting to experience one full Shabbat together, with no phones, cars or TVs.

The Shabbat Project was introduced in South Africa in 2013 with quite a astonishing effect. On the Shabbat it ran, close to 70 percent of the country’s 75,000 Jews kept Shabbat in full, most for the first time in their lives. Perhaps more significantly, the initiative drew people together in ways never seen before.

 

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