There will be no eerie glow coming from your Havdalah candle on Saturday evening, Oct. 31. No boiling or toiling in your Kiddush cup or smell of sulfur in your spice box. Shabbat will be ending, ...

Rabbi Naftali Citron, who grew up as a follower of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, has fond memories of the singer-composer leading the Havdalah service that marks the end of Shabbat. “He was at the ...

I remember, when I was 6 or 7 years old, a ritual: Immediately after Havdalah my mother would run over to the phone — a yellow rotary phone embedded in the kitchen wall, to call her parents. It was ...

Young Jewish students at a Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Krakow, Poland, during a havdalah ceremony. The Pew Report on the state of American Jewry has frightened us, but there is a way to counter ...