(New York Jewish Week) — This weekend is Shavuot, the major Jewish holiday that occurs seven weeks after the second Passover seder and marks the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Though Shavuot is ...

The Atlanta Rabbinical Association (ARA) will host a community-wide virtual Tikkun Leil Shavuot on Thursday, May 28th, beginning at 6 p.m., with multiple tracks and prayer services. Teachers will ...

An often-overlooked spring holiday, Shavuot commemorates the moment when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people. For generations, Jews have celebrated with communal Torah study sessions, called ...

So goes the origin story of the great Rabbi Akiva, recounted in the “Avot D’Rabbi Natan,” a collection of Jewish aggadot, or legends, from the latter half of the first millennium. One day, according ...

The holiday of Shavuot, which begins at sundown this year on Thursday, May 25, is understood by Jewish tradition to be the time when God gave the Israelites the Torah at Mount Sinai. It is ...

When Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly during a 2015 vacation to Mexico, Sandberg found solace in Jewish tradition. “One of the ways you find strength is to ...

Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates learning, specifically the first five books of the Hebrew Bible were revealed to the Jewish people. Manhattan’s Jewish Community Center celebrated with a ...

IKAR, a politically liberal Jewish community with a focus on social justice, went progressive in another sense during a June 11 Shavuot Torah study program. That’s when about 130 participants started ...

Can you smell blintzes, cheesecakes and all of those dairy goodies in the air? It’s Shavuot time! Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. There are many Shavuot customs, such as ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot sometimes gets lost behind more well known or popular holidays. For instance, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur see a great many people attending synagogue, Passover has ...