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  • We need Shabbat now more than ever

    Caroline Rothstein|Apr 10, 2020

    Two Fridays ago, on a final grocery store run before officially locking myself alone inside my Brooklyn studio apartment, I purchased a box of 72 “Standard Shabbos Candles” for the first time in my life. I had recently reclaimed the candlestick holders I got for my bat mitzvah from a family storage unit outside Chicago, so as I stood in line at the grocery store looking into my basket—essentials for this pandemic programming—I felt grateful I’d somehow decided that Shabbat needed to be part of what will help me live through these unprecede...