The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat: Connect and Celebrate--Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal

By Meredith L. Jacobs

Book Overview

Bringing the family together every Friday night for the Shabbat meal has helped many families connect with each other, even as children grow into their teens and beyond. Having experienced the joys of Shabbat and witnessed how it has brought her family together, Meredith L. Jacobs now brings us THE MODERN MOM'S GUIDE TO SHABBAT. Written in conversational style from one modern Jewish mom to another, THE MJM'S GUIDE will be funny and warm, brightly colored and easy to read, filled with delicious, easy recipes and family art projects, while also challenging readers with summaries of the weekly Torah portion and suggested family discussion topics, compelling readers to include discussion in their dinner as a vehicle for connecting with their children-both teaching and learning from them. It will be informative and accessible throughout. Shabbat is a wonderful way to ensure that in this day of ridiculous schedules and pressures, that we have at least one meal per week together as a family. Shabbat is the time we turn the outside world away and connect with each other. Unlike other holidays, Shabbat is not once a year, it's once a week, giving us fifty-two chances a year to connect with our children. Whether you are reform, conservative, or modern orthodox, newly converted or non-Jewish in an inter-faith marriage, THE MODERN JEWISH MOM'S GUIDE TO SHABBAT will teach us about traditions, making new ones, and most importantly, how to connect with our children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061120650
• ISBN13: 9780061120657
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Love this book!

Absolutely a great read for any modern Jewish woman/mother looking to reconnect with Judaism and celebrate Shabbat with her own family. The book was written in a completely non-judgemental way and was very accessible, without causing immense waves of guilt and shame that I needed a book to help me out! Perfect for a beginner looking to be more observant of Shabbat or for a mom trying to make Shabbat more enjoyable for her children. She presents ways to slowly incorporate a more observant way of life into your own modern, fast-paced life. The stories were funny, the suggestions were excellent and her go-to challah recipe is now mine as well! Worth every cent! Much thanks to my husband for buying this as a gift when our children were born - I now have confidence that my children will have fond memories of Shabbat when they're older.

Great Resource!

Loved this book so much that I bought another for a friend (which she will receive for a Hanukkah gift). Very reasonable approach to celebrating Shabbat in today's modern world.

Any collection catering to modern Jewish living needs this.

The modern, busy Jewish mother here receives a key to getting everything done in 24 hours AND to putting on Shabbat to bring a busy family together. Here are recipes, prayers, and even discussion questions that offer a wealth of ideas to translate an old ritual into modern times. Any collection catering to modern Jewish living needs this.

Such Inspiration!

i just started and finished reading this book and wanted to tell everyone what i thought.....i LOVED it....it was funny without being naughty and totally informative and inspiring. it is well written without being stuffy and "Hebrew schooly"....points come across by imparting wisdom, not preaching or sounding holier than thou....i especially liked the anecdotes about Meredith's kids and how other people find meaning in Shabbat.