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As my friends finish up the last of their cheesecake from Shavuot, many ask what’s next. I said Tisha B’Av. This is the ...
Shavuot is a deeply sacred time when we honor God’s gift of Torah, celebrating the wisdom, guidance, and divine teachings revealed to Israel at Sinai. Tonight, as a Christian honored to participate in ...
Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...
It was the collision of Israel’s past with its present and future. The offerings may have been meager. The dairy dishes ...
Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster unpacks the Jewish perspective of Shavuot - the festival known to ...
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.
By adding Purim to the duo of Passover and Shavuot, this trio reminds us that hiddenness is not static. It is dynamic.
With Rachel is away in Israel, I reached out to Mickey for her help in baking a special, rather unusual bread for Shavuot. “Los Siete Cielos,” The Seven Heavens is a bread that was featured in the ...
Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the Jewish people receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, begins this year at sunset on ...
The first grand-scale “redemption of the first-born sons” happens in Bamidbar, which means “In the wilderness.” Bamidbar is ...
Sunday afternoon’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot. Authorities say a man threw two incendiary devices into a group holding one ...