Jews who observe the holiday typically self-reflect during the 49-day “Omer count” period and work on their spiritual growth. This year, it begins the evening of Sunday, May 16 and lasts until ...

Maybe this is the year that Shavuot is about more than cheesecake ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting ...

There, we find a biblical outline for the Jewish festival, Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks (see Leviticus 23:15-21, Numbers ...

The new Torah was first used for services on Monday and especially appreciated at Wednesday's Shavuot, an important Jewish holiday celebrating the day when Moses returned from Mount Sinai with the ...

NEW YORK (JTA) – Shavuot celebrations often center around ... fruity and sweet or herbal and green. In her “Jewish Holiday Cookbook,” Joan Nathan explains that fruit soups, often sweetened ...

It seems like no coincidence, then, that we read Esther and Ruth at the beginning and end of this period in the year.

Themes: The Jewish festival of Shavuot; the Bible story of Ruth and Naomi; loyalty; welcoming others. Ruth: Yes, my first husband was Jewish and from here - in Bethlehem. He moved to Moab with his ...

Albag said that on Liri's birthday, the former hostages reached out to her and told her that they had heard an interview she gave on Kan Reshet Bet on the eve of Shavuot 2024. "Agam Berger said to ...