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

A former director of media relations, Meredith L. Jacobs has spent the last decade creating programs and events for local charity groups, schools, and synagogues. In 2004, she developed a series of workshops about Shabbat for women's groups that inspired this book. Jacobs's monthly column on family and parenting appears in Jewish newspapers in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Phoenix, and Detroit. She lives with her husband and their two children in Rockville, Maryland.

Today, getting everything done in a twenty-four-hour period seems impossible. After working, shuttling the kids to soccer practice, attending PTA meetings, taking the dog to the vet, and organizing a charity event, who has time to bake challah? In The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat, Meredith Jacobs, the ultimate modern mom, shows readers how Shabbat is one of the best ways to bring your family closer in spite of a hectic schedule.

In this must-have guide filled with helpful tips, recipes, prayers, and discussion questions, Jacobs brings Shabbat to her readers with a refreshing and modern twist. Whether you were born and raised Jewish, are in an interfaith marriage, a recent convert, or simply want to bring more tradition to your family and into your home, The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat is perfect for you. Comprehensive, useful, and written in a warm, engaging, and conversational tone - this inspirational hands-on guide will help keep this age-old ritual alive.