The latest edition of Israel's most popular English TV show, Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem, is dedicated to the upcoming holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks). Show hosts Jeremy Gimpel and Ari ...

A slice of berry cheesecake (Photo by Suzy Hazelwood Courtesy of Pexels) Shavuot, or Shvues, is a wonderfully Jewish holiday. It celebrates the day that Moses received the Ten Commandments atop Mount ...

Shavuot is my favorite chag. Every year I am amazed how viscerally I connect to the magic of it all. I am reminded of the Children of Israel from biblical times, who for seven weeks toiled arduously, ...

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Unlike Jews, for the Samaritans Shavuot is a seven-day festival, and as one of the three pilgrimage festivals, the faithful all gather on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, which they ...

Coming 50 days after Passover, Shavuot marks the end of the grain harvest and the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is also one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three ...

The Mishnah (Avot 6:2) states that “The Tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved [charut] on the tablets (Exodus 32:16). Read not charut, “engraved” but cherut, ...

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 ...