Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah... most non-Jewish people have at least a vague idea of what those Jewish holidays commemorate, celebrate or honor. But how about Shavuot, the "Feast of Weeks?" ...

In honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer organization founded by ...

At a unique crossroads between religion and cuisine, the holiday of Shavuot, celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai some 3,337 years ago, has become a celebration of fine dairy cuisine as ...

Books beckon families with stories that show Jewish customs around the world and across the centuries. The enduring traditions of the High Holiday season take shape across time and place in the latest ...

We often group Jewish holidays in pairs – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, or Passover and Shavuot. It is interesting that we number the days between these two pairs of holidays to connect them. For ...

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