Around the World in One Shabbat: Jewish People Celebrate the Sabbath Together [Hardcover]

Take your child on a colorful adventure to share the many ways Jewish people celebrate Shabbat around the world.Shabbat Shalom!

• Beginning in an old Jerusalem market Friday morning, shopping for foods to make Shabbat meals special
• Setting a beautiful Sabbath table in Australia Friday afternoon
• Lighting Shabbat candles with a family in Turkey
• Singingzemirotwith relatives in Russia
• Makinghamotzias a congregation in the United States
• Parading the Torah scrolls at Shabbat morning services in a synagogue in Germany
• Relaxing in the peace of Shabbat day in Canada
• Enjoying a special Sabbath afternoon meal in Morocco

From Israel to Thailand, from Ethiopia to Argentina, you and your children are invited to share the diverse Sabbath traditions that come alive in Jewish homes and synagogues around the world each weekand to celebrate life with Jewish people everywhere.

ChallahCrumbs: Tell us a bit about your book.

Durga Yael Bernhard: AROUND THE WORLD IN ONE SHABBAT (Jewish Lights, 2011) follows the cycle of one Sabbath, beginning with preparation on Friday morning through Havdalah (candle lighting to end Shabbat) at sundown the following day. Each activity of the Sabbath is portrayed through the eyes of a child in a different country, beginning and ending in Israel. I chose to represent countries with large Jewish populations (France, the USA, Argentina) as well as places where the Jewish population is quite small (Ethiopia, India, Thailand) . . . thus we get a feel for the global shape of Judaism today.

CC What inspired you to write this book?

DYB: The idea that on every Shabbat, pl3Y