(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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

On the one hand, staying up all night on Shavuos is a time honored and beloved minhag Yisrael. In the absence of the Beis Hamikdash, the only unique features of Shavuos are its customs such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thus we find that, uniquely among holidays, the date of Shavuot is not fixed at all and is in fact set by the Sanhedrin. Rav Friedman explains that the true greatness of the Torah can only be ...

(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 ...

Why some study to the point of exhaustion on a holiday about the giving of the Torah. Though the custom is widespread, there are few classical sources to support it. So why do we do it? On its face, ...