Considered by Jewish tradition to be on par with the fall and spring festivals of Sukkot and Passover, Shavuot is sometimes ignored because it is six days shorter — the holiday celebrating the ...

Shavuot is also one of the Shalosh Regalim, the three pilgrimage festivals which include Shavuot, Sukkot, and Passover. Jews celebrate Shavuot by staying up late into the night learning Torah and ...

Shavuot is the festival when we celebrate the receiving of the Torah and, in the words of the late Chief Rabbi Sacks zt”l, we celebrate being “free to” live a Jewish life.

In the days of the Temple, the counting marked the seven weeks from the wheat harvest on the spring festival of Passover, to ...

Jews with some familiarity of Shavuot probably know the holiday as ... on non-kosher meat for the first time, the Israelites celebrated with the only foods that conformed to the new laws of ...

“Absurd’’ New Jersey pols scheduled the state’s June primary elections during the holy Jewish holiday of Shavuot, prompting infuriated religious groups to demand the date be changed.

Join Ben Faulks for a programme all about the celebration of Shavuot and what it represents for Jewish people; rules and why we need them; treating others as individuals. Look at more pictures of ...

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 ...