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?" ...

Shavuot, which marks the receiving of the Ten Commandments by Moses, was often referred to as the Jewish Thanksgiving or the “Feast of the First Fruits,” a time when farm bounty and grains were ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It is seven weeks since Passover and the Jewish community will celebrate Shavuot, also called the feast of weeks or the Pentecost beginning Tuesday at sundown. This also marks ...

Reporting from Tel Aviv — Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law’s kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just ...

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Cheesecake and blintzes hold an important place in the realm of Jewish cuisine, but they aren’t the be all and end all of Shavuot foods. In fact, there are many unique dishes — both dairy and nondairy ...

the Omer, commemorating the 49 days between leaving Egypt and receiving the Torah. As it is written in Proverbs, “The Torah is a Tree of Life.” Images of trees and flowers recall the Torah and ...

The contemporary notion of freedom is twisted, at least in Judaism’s eyes. Many moderns feel fettered by — depending on the particulars of their lives — their jobs, finances, parents, children or ...

(JTA) — Rome’s largest synagogue was decorated with thousands of flowers as part of the community’s tradition ahead of the holiday of Shavuot. The flowers — arrangements of roses of various colors and ...

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 ...