While Shavuot is primarily known today for commemorating the giving of the Torah at Sinai, this aspect of the holiday is only ...

When you think of Jewish holidays, a few may come to mind. Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, maybe. But what about Shavuot? The holiday – which means "weeks" in Hebrew, and is referred ...

FARGO — When Rabbi Yonah and Esti Grossman celebrate Shavuot with their family next week, they’ll reunite with a moment some 3,332 years ago, when several million Jews gathered near Mount Sinai and ...

Chabad of Sunny Isles Beach is preparing for the inspiring holiday of Shavuot with a full schedule of meaningful community ...

Spring is in the air, and that means it’s Shavuot time. On June 5 and 6 we will celebrate the giving of the Torah, the Bible, at Mount Sinai. After hundreds of years under the Pharaoh’s tyrannical ...

Shavuot is that moment in the year where all becomes one – People Israel, Torah, memory and the Divine – a unification begun ...

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 Sinai. This gift, and the ...

The literal translation of Shavuot is the Festival of Weeks” because of the holiday’s connection with Passover. In Rabbinic Hebrew, this festival is called Atzeret because it is similar to Shemini ...

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(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 ...

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In honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer organization founded by ...