This short one-day holiday in Israel – two days in the Diaspora - is laden with many layers of history, meaning and influence. The holiday as recorded for us in the scripture of the Torah itself is ...

When you think of Jewish holidays, a few may come to mind. Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, maybe. But what about Shavuot? The holiday – which means "weeks" in Hebrew, and is referred ...

As Shavuot approaches, our thoughts turn not only to the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments but also to the pressing moral questions of our time. “Did you know that in the past 600 days ...

Spring is in the air, and that means it’s Shavuot time. On June 5 and 6 we will celebrate the giving of the Torah, the Bible, at Mount Sinai. After hundreds of years under the Pharaoh’s tyrannical ...

Shavuot is a key date in the Jewish calendar when when does it fall in 2018 and what is the significance of the festival? SHAVUOT is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals ...

Shavuot is taking place this week. Marking the spring harvest and commemorating the day God gave the Torah to Moses, Shavuot is a holiday sometimes forgotten or diminished by secular Jews. Today, ...

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It's sad for Shavuot. Rosh Hashanah has its shofar, Pesach its matzah, Purim its Megillah - but Shavusot has no special mitzvah to make it colourful and popular, and Jewish opinion,except for yeshivas ...

Next Thursday evening 25th May is Erev Shavuot. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the summer. In biblical times, Shavuot was one of three ...

Next Thursday evening 25 th May is Erev Shavuot. The holiday celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as well as the grain harvest for the summer. In biblical times, Shavuot was one of three ...

We all know the drill at Passover: we gather around Seder tables to celebrate the greatest gift known to humanity—sheer, unbridled human freedom. Freedom is the elixir of life. Given how scarce it’s ...

SHAVUOT is one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals in Jewish culture and a key event in the Judaic calendar. In English it is known as the Feast of Weeks and has a double ...