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

For most communities, the coronavirus has cancelled Shavuot. That’s because the standard Shavuot celebration revolves around public, shared space events like all-night Jewish learning at a synagogue ...

The end of Pesach often gets overlooked or becomes a countdown to the “finishing the matzah collections on the shelf.” However, there are meaningful spiritual practices that can help bring the values ...

Shavuot, which we’ll celebrate from Saturday night to Monday night, can seem elusive, the semi-forgotten middle-child of the major festivals, its brevity imbalanced between its week-long siblings, ...

So why is unity so vital? The Jewish festivals of Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot, alongside the wisdom of Jewish thinkers like the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, illuminate why unity, ...

(RNS) — In the summer of 1776, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the Great Seal of the United States should depict Moses at the Red Sea, his staff lifted high and the ancient Egyptian pursuers drowning ...

Today is a Jewish holiday, the festival of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks. The holiday is mentioned in the Torah as one of the “appointed seasons,” an occasion for making pilgrimage to the central ...

When I first saw Maya’s hands, I began to worry, “Yikes, PLEASE don’t schmutz up anything!” But I then realized … Someday I will look back at this tender moment in time wistfully, yearning for the ...

(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 ...

Shavuot, meaning both weeks and making an oath, is the great marriage between the people, Israel and the Infinite One, Adonai. One of the few holidays without any historical or political connection, ...

I am spending this Pentecost Sunday at Auschwitz, where my journalist husband is working on a story. This past week, instead of the Christian Pentecost, I celebrated the original Jewish Pentecostal ...

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?" ...