Venue: Kehilath Jeshurun (New York, NY) Kehilath Jeshurun (New York, NY)

Halacha:

Kiddush and Havdala,  Shabbat 

Machshava:

History 

Description

On a Motza’ei Shabbat in New York, you may notice that different communities end Shabbat at different times — sometimes by just a few minutes, and sometimes by much more. Why does one community wait, another rushes, and a third follows an old-world custom that seems out of sync with everyone else? Join us for a fascinating look at how Jewish immigrants brought their unique halakhic traditions about twilight and nightfall to America — and how those differences still shape our Shabbat today.