Sabbath
Mark’s Gospel provides a legal loophole for providing sanctuary. Will Christians use it?
By Roger Vermalen Karban — June 13, 2017
(RNS) God doesn’t first create laws, and then create humans to obey them. God creates humans, and then creates laws to help them live fulfilled lives.
Kushners get to fly on Air Force One on the Sabbath
By Jerome Socolovsky — May 19, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) When it comes to Jewish observance, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump may be in a class of by themselves.
Ivanka Trump gets a rabbinic pass to travel on Shabbat
By Yonat Shimron — January 20, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) Orthodox Jews like the new president’s daughter and her husband are not allowed to drive or ride in a vehicle on the Sabbath, which begins just as the post-inaugural balls in Washington for Trump will be starting.
Mel Gibson’s ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ puts Seventh-day Adventists in spotlight
By RNS staff — November 8, 2016
NASHVILLE — Hacksaw Ridge tells the extraordinary true story of the late Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist who refused to carry a weapon due to religious beliefs while serving as a combat medic.
How the Sabbath cured one man’s hatred
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 21, 2016
Derek Black was a racist and a bigot. And then, he started attending Shabbat dinners.
Ben Carson’s faith (and mine) has already touched your life (COMMENTARY)
By Mark A. Kellner — October 26, 2015
What Donald Trump doesn’t know about Seventh-day Adventism could perhaps fill a book or two. But the 1 million Adventists in the U.S. would be happy to tell him -- or anyone else -- the full story.
Ben Carson’s Muslim comments ignore his own denomination’s history (COMMENTARY)
By Aaron Griffith — September 23, 2015
(RNS) One wonders whether Carson’s rhetoric about Muslims would at all be tempered if he recalled the example of beleaguered Seventh-day Adventists staring down forced Sabbath-keeping.
Brooklyn hot-plate fire leads Orthodox Jews to re-evaluate Sabbath safety
By Michele Chabin — March 23, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Many Jews acknowledged they leave home while their Sabbath candles are burning and their hot plates are on.
British government to investigate discrimination against Jews
By Trevor Grundy — July 19, 2013
(RNS) Jacob Slinger, a 19-year-old who lives in Greater Manchester, won an appeal against the Department of Works and Pensions after he’d been denied a jobseeker’s allowance of 56.80 pounds ($86.67) a week because he refused to work on Saturdays.
Vatican works to stop Sunday shopping in Italy
By Alessandro Speciale — December 19, 2012
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church, trade unions and small business associations have joined forces in a bid to save Sundays. By Alessandro Speciale.
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